submit

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English

Etymology

From Middle English submitten, borrowed from Latin submittere, infinitive of submittō (“place under, yield”), from sub (“under, from below, up”) + mitto (“to send”). Compare upsend.

Pronunciation

• enPR: səbmĭtʹ, IPA^(key): /səbˈmɪt/
• Rhymes: -ɪt
• Hyphenation: sub‧mit

Verb

submit (third-person singular simple present submits, present participle submitting, simple past and past participle submitted)

1. (intransitive) To yield or give way to another.

2. (transitive) To yield (something) to another, as when defeated.
3. (ambitransitive) To enter or put forward for approval, consideration, marking etc.
4. (transitive) To subject; to put through a process.
5. (transitive, mixed martial arts, professional wrestling) To win a fight against (an opponent) by submission.
6. (transitive, obsolete) To let down; to lower.
7. (transitive, obsolete) To put or place under.

Derived terms

Related terms

• submission
• submissive
• mission

Translations

Further reading

• “submit”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “submit”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
• “submit”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

Anagrams

• tumbis