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English Dictionary: submit by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
submit
v
  1. refer for judgment or consideration; "The lawyers submitted the material to the court"
    Synonym(s): submit, subject
  2. put before; "I submit to you that the accused is guilty"
    Synonym(s): submit, state, put forward, posit
  3. yield to the control of another
  4. hand over formally
    Synonym(s): present, submit
  5. refer to another person for decision or judgment; "She likes to relegate difficult questions to her colleagues"
    Synonym(s): relegate, pass on, submit
  6. yield to another's wish or opinion; "The government bowed to the military pressure"
    Synonym(s): submit, bow, defer, accede, give in
  7. accept or undergo, often unwillingly; "We took a pay cut"
    Synonym(s): take, submit
  8. make an application as for a job or funding; "We put in a grant to the NSF"
    Synonym(s): put in, submit
  9. make over as a return; "They had to render the estate"
    Synonym(s): render, submit
  10. accept as inevitable; "He resigned himself to his fate"
    Synonym(s): resign, reconcile, submit
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Submit \Sub*mit"\, v. i.
      1. To yield one's person to the power of another; to give up
            resistance; to surrender.
  
                     The revolted provinces presently submitted. --C.
                                                                              Middleton.
  
      2. To yield one's opinion to the opinion of authority of
            another; to be subject; to acquiesce.
  
                     To thy husband's will Thine shall submit. --Milton.
  
      3. To be submissive or resigned; to yield without murmuring.
  
                     Our religion requires from us . . . to submit to
                     pain, disgrace, and even death.         --Rogers.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Submit \Sub*mit"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Submitted}; p. pr. & vb.
      n. {Submitting}.] [L. submittere; sub under + mittere to
      send: cf. F. soumettre. See {Missile}.]
      1. To let down; to lower. [Obs.]
  
                     Sometimes the hill submits itself a while. --Dryden.
  
      2. To put or place under.
  
                     The bristled throat Of the submitted sacrifice with
                     ruthless steel he cut.                        --Chapman.
  
      3. To yield, resign, or surrender to power, will, or
            authority; -- often with the reflexive pronoun.
  
                     Ye ben submitted through your free assent.
                                                                              --Chaucer.
  
                     The angel of the Lord said unto her, Return to thy
                     mistress, and submit thyself under her hands. --Gen.
                                                                              xvi. 9.
  
                     Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands.
                                                                              --Eph. v. 22.
  
      4. To leave or commit to the discretion or judgment of
            another or others; to refer; as, to submit a controversy
            to arbitrators; to submit a question to the court; --
            often followed by a dependent proposition as the object.
  
                     Whether the condition of the clergy be able to bear
                     a heavy burden, is submitted to the house. --Swift.
  
                     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.                        --Macaulay.
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