submit Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. verb refer for judgment or consideration
    subject.
    • The lawyers submitted the material to the court
  2. verb put before
    posit; state; put forward.
    • I submit to you that the accused is guilty
  3. verb yield to the control of another
  4. verb hand over formally
    present.
  5. verb refer to another person for decision or judgment
    relegate; pass on.
    • She likes to relegate difficult questions to her colleagues
  6. verb yield to another's wish or opinion
    give in; defer; accede; bow.
    • The government bowed to the military pressure
  7. verb accept or undergo, often unwillingly
    take.
    • We took a pay cut
  8. verb make an application as for a job or funding
    put in.
    • We put in a grant to the NSF
  9. verb make over as a return
    render.
    • They had to render the estate
  10. verb accept as inevitable
    reconcile; resign.
    • He resigned himself to his fate

WordNet

Sub*mit" transitive verb
Etymology
L. submittere; sub under + mittere to send: cf. F. soumettre. See Missile.
Wordforms
imperfect & past participle Submitted ; present participle & verbal noun Submitting
Definitions
  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.
Sub*mit" intransitive verb
Definitions
  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.

Webster 1913