submit
//səbˈmɪt//
Forms
- present (v1)
- submit
- past (v2)
- submitted
- past participle (v3)
- submitted
- present participle
- submitting
- 3rd person singular
- submits
Definitions
1.To yield or give way to another.
- We submit to their superior judgment.
- They will not submit to the destruction of their rights.
2.To yield (something) to another, as when defeated.
3.To enter or put forward for approval, consideration, marking etc.
- I submit these plans for your approval.
- Pursuant to 11 C.F.R. § 200.1 et seq., Attorney General of Texas Ken Paxton hereby submits this Petition for Rulemaking.
- We submit that a wooden spoon of our day would not be justified in calling Galileo and Napier blockheads because they never heard of the differential calculus.
4.To subject; to put through a process.
- I was submitted to a binding pledge.
Frequency
Overall
Uncommon· #2565
By learning goal
- Everyday conversation
- Rare
- General reading & writing
- Uncommon
- Academic
- Rare
- Literature
- Rare
Etymology
From Middle English submitten, borrowed from Latin submittere, infinitive of submittō (“place under, yield”), from sub (“under, from below, up”) + mitto (“to send”).
Compare upsend.