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Submit   /səbmˈɪt/   Listen
Submit

verb
(past & past part. submitted; pres. part. submitting)
1.
Refer for judgment or consideration.  Synonym: subject.
2.
Put before.  Synonyms: posit, put forward, state.
3.
Yield to the control of another.
4.
Hand over formally.  Synonym: present.
5.
Refer to another person for decision or judgment.  Synonyms: pass on, relegate.
6.
Yield to another's wish or opinion.  Synonyms: accede, bow, defer, give in.
7.
Accept or undergo, often unwillingly.  Synonym: take.
8.
Make an application as for a job or funding.  Synonym: put in.
9.
Make over as a return.  Synonym: render.
10.
Accept as inevitable.  Synonyms: reconcile, resign.



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... folks's love o' theirselves, and the money as is to go into other folks's pockets. I know there's them as is born t' own the land, and them as is born to sweat on't"—here Mrs. Poyser paused to gasp a little—"and I know it's christened folks's duty to submit to their betters as fur as flesh and blood 'ull bear it; but I'll not make a martyr o' myself, and wear myself to skin and bone, and worret myself as if I was a churn wi' butter a-coming in't, for no landlord in England, not if he was ...
— Adam Bede • George Eliot
... to the Austrian metropolis. Seven hours' ride in what the Austrians are bold enough to term an express-train covers the distance between Vienna and Pesth, yet there seems to be an abyss somewhere on the route which the inhabitants are afraid of. Pride, a haughty determination not to submit to centralization, and content with their surroundings make the Hungarians sparing of intercourse with their Austrian neighbors. "We send them prime ministers, and now and then we allow them a glimpse of some of our beauties in one ...
— Lippincott's Magazine, December 1878 • Various
... in opposition to Davis he had at that time, he said, urged an obligatory army which the States should be required to raise. The Confederate Administration, however, had defeated his scheme. Since then the situation had changed and had become so serious that now there was no choice but to submit to military necessity. He regarded the general conscription law as "absolutely necessary to save" the Confederacy "from utter devastation if not final subjugation. Right or wrong, the policy of the Administration had left us no ...
— The Day of the Confederacy - A Chronicle of the Embattled South, Volume 30 In The - Chronicles Of America Series • Nathaniel W. Stephenson
... small class of men who, either from the most worldly of motives or, in the very opposite extreme, from motives so high that they will not permit personal pride to stand in the way of the real union of hearts, submit to the indignity of becoming pensioners ...
— The Etiquette of To-day • Edith B. Ordway
... to defy just one half-grown lad, whereas if she believed herself to be up against the whole troop she would submit with the best ...
— Pathfinder - or, The Missing Tenderfoot • Alan Douglas


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