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Dictionary definition · submit

verb

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

Source: Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0).