Submit
[səb'mɪt]
Definition
(verb.) put before; 'I submit to you that the accused is guilty'.
(verb.) yield to another's wish or opinion; 'The government bowed to the military pressure'.
(verb.) refer for judgment or consideration; 'The lawyers submitted the material to the court'.
(verb.) yield to the control of another.
Typed by Angelo--From WordNet
Definition
(v. t.) To let down; to lower.
(v. t.) To put or place under.
(v. t.) To yield, resign, or surrender to power, will, or authority; -- often with the reflexive pronoun.
(v. t.) 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.
(v. i.) To yield one's person to the power of another; to give up resistance; to surrender.
(v. i.) To yield one's opinion to the opinion of authority of another; to be subject; to acquiesce.
(v. i.) To be submissive or resigned; to yield without murmuring.
Typist: Serena
Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. [1]. Yield, surrender, resign, subject, give up.[2]. Refer, commit.
v. n. Yield, surrender, succumb, knuckle, stoop, crouch, give up, knock under, lower one's flag, kiss the rod, lick the dust, eat humble pie, draw in one's horns.
Typed by Enid
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Yield, resign, surrender, comply, refer, propose, suggest, present, acquiesce,succumb
ANT:Recalcitrate, oppose, resist, object, withdraw, resume, rescue, recover,vindicate, retain, reserve, hold, keep, contend
Inputed by Jenny
Definition
v.t. to refer to the judgment of another: to surrender to another.—v.i. to yield one's self to another: to surrender: to yield one's opinion: to be subject:—pr.p. submit′ting; pa.t. and pa.p. submit′ted.—adj. Submiss′ (Milt.) cast down prostrate.—n. Submis′sion act of submitting or yielding: acknowledgment of inferiority or of a fault: humble behaviour: resignation.—adj. Submis′sive willing or ready to submit: yielding: humble: obedient.—adv. Submis′sively humbly—(obs.) Submiss′ly.—n. Submis′siveness.
Checker: Sherman
Examples
- Such the decree of the High Ruler from whom there is no appeal: to whom I submit. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- Never did I submit to any one. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- Perhaps I had better say, that you must submit to be mildly bored rather than to go on working. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- When he went to his shack he found a native cook installed there, and had to submit to the hospitality of his hosts. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- When all is over, my father must submit to necessity. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- Admiration will go out to the men who did not submit, who bent things to human use. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Truly we were not born to enjoy, but to submit, and to hope. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- She submitted to him, let him take what he wanted and do as he wanted with her. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Of course I submitted to him, because it was my duty; it was my feeling for him, said Dorothea, looking through the prism of her tears. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Elinor submitted to the arrangement which counteracted her wishes with less reluctance than she had expected to feel. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
- Sissy submitted, after a little hesitation, 'I should not be the worse, Miss Louisa. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
- And now I made a very careful examination of the corner of paper which the Inspector had submitted to us. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- By the way, Sherlock, said he, I have had something quite after your own heart--a most singular problem--submitted to my judgment. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- I presume it was hardly read by him, and certainly it could not have been submitted to higher authority. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Men will not go on submitting to such intolerable ugliness. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- I am waiting, however, with some anxiety, to hear the rational explanation of the difficulty which I have just had the honour of submitting to you. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- Miss Pross, submitting herself to his judgment, the scheme was worked out with care. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- Later, James was forbidden to publish the paper without submitting to the supervision of the Secretary of the Province. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- All the while, the young man stood by, shamefaced and down-at-heel, submitting. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- To die is also a joy, a joy of submitting to that which is greater than the known, namely, the pure unknown. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Dorothea, submitting uneasily to this discouragement, went with Celia into the library, which was her usual drawing-room. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- It must be English for some one, sir, I think, Mr. Snagsby submits with his deferential cough. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- With this beneficent wish, Mr. Snagsby coughs a cough of dismal resignation and submits himself to hear what the visitor has to communicate. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- She had that rare sense which discerns what is unalterable, and submits to it without murmuring. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- He falls into a swoon for grief; but submits. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
- She was like a hawk that sullenly submits to everything. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
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