submit
/səbˈmɪt/ verb B2- To yield or give way to another. · They will not submit to the destruction of their rights.· We submit to their superior judgment.
- To yield (something) to another, as when defeated.
- To enter or put forward for approval, consideration, marking etc. · I submit these plans for your approval.
- To subject; to put through a process. · I was submitted to a binding pledge.
- To win a fight against (an opponent) by submission.
Plural submit · He/she/it submits · Past submitted · Past participle submitted · -ing form submitting
Verb forms
- Base form
- submit
- He/she/it
- submits
- Past
- submitted
- Past participle
- submitted
- -ing form
- submitting
An irregular verb: learn its past and past participle by heart.
From the library
Bennet was forced to submit to a separation, which, as her husband by no means entered into her scheme of their all going to Newcastle, was likely to continue at least a twelvemonth.
It is far more becoming to go straight forward.” The young Crab replied: “Quite true, dear Mother; and if you will show me the straight way, I will promise to walk in it.” The Mother tried in vain, and submitted without remonstrance to the reproof of her child.
A FLEA thus questioned an Ox: “What ails you, that being so huge and strong, you submit to the wrongs you receive from men and slave for them day by day, while I, being so small a creature, mercilessly feed on their flesh and drink their blood without stint?” The Ox replied: “I do not wish to be ungrateful, for I am loved and well cared for by men, and they often pat my head and shoulders.” “Woe’s me!” said the flea; “this very patting which you like, whenever it happens to me, brings with it my inevitable destruction.”
I am Captain Dantès, a loyal Frenchman, thought accused of treason; tell me where you are conducting me, and I promise you on my honor I will submit to my fate.”
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