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[ verb ] refer for judgment or consideration
Synonyms Examples "She submitted a proposal to the agency" Used in print (Edwin L. Bigelow and Nancy H. Otis,...)The committee submitted a report signed by Louis_Martin and Leon_Wiley with a map published in the 1946 town report . No figures were submitted with the report and no action was taken on it by the town . (Guy Endore, Voltaire! Voltaire!...)`` Let me do the submitting to the Royal_Academy '' , he suggested . Related terms |
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[ verb ] put before
Synonyms Examples "I submit to you that the accused is guilty" Used in print (Barry Goldwater, "A Foreign Policy for America"...)I submit that this is the key problem of international relations , that it always has been , that it always will be . (Brainard Cheney, "Christianity and the Tragic Vision-Ut...)But it is the need to undertake these testaments that I would submit here as symptom of the common_man 's malaise . (U.S. Reports. Volume 364. Cases Adjudged in the...)But in_any_event , I submit that the power to depose belongs_to Congress , not to this Court . Related terms |
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[ verb ] yield to the control of another
Used in print (The Times-Picayune, [New Orleans]...)He won't submit to his natural desires all_the_time , and it 's Mother 's love that is responsible_for his good behavior . (Edward P. Lawton, "Northern Liberals and Southern...)This is the only case in modern history of a_people of Britannic origin submitting without continued struggle to what they view_as foreign domination . Related terms |
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[ verb ] hand over formally
Synonyms Used in print (Douglas Ashford, "Elections in Morocco: Progress...)In January , 1958 , the Minister_of_the_Interior announced that an election law was ready to be submitted to the King , the rumors of election dates appeared once_again , first for spring of 1958 and later for the summer . |
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[ verb ] accept or undergo, often unwillingly
Examples "We took a pay cut" Used in print (Jack Kaplan, "The Health Machine Menace: Therapy by...)When she submitted to his treatment with the capsules , Mrs._Shaefer felt intense pain . (Hampton Stone, The Man Who Looked Death...)The cops would gather_up Connor and the foursome on the third floor and bring us those of them who would voluntarily submit to fingerprinting . |
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[ verb ] refer to another person for decision or judgment
Examples "She likes to relegate difficult questions to her colleagues" Used in print (Robert Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land....)Oh , you can submit a requisition for a miracle if you want to make a fool of yourself . Related terms |
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[ verb ] submit or yield to another's wish or opinion
Examples "The government bowed to the military pressure" Used in print (Philip Reaves, "Who Rules the Marriage Bed?"...)More often , though , he is so accustomed to submitting to authority on the job without argument that he lives by the same rule at home . (Irving Fineman, Woman of Valor: The Life of Henrietta...)Women themselves have come to look_upon matters in the same light as the outside world , and scarcely find any wrong in submitting to the importunities of a stronger will , even when their affections are withheld . |
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[ verb ] put on an application, apply for a job, in a competition, etc.
Synonyms Examples "We put in a grant to the NSF" Used in print (Bern Dibner, "Oerstad and the Discovery of Electro...)Oersted remodeled Ritter 's notes into an essay in French which was submitted to the Institut_de_France for its annual prize of 3000 francs . |
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[ verb ] accept as inevitable
Examples "He resigned himself to his fate" Related terms |
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