Submit: Definition and part of speech

Submit

  1. v. i. To be submissive or resigned; to yield without murmuring.
  2. v. t. To let down; to lower.
  3. v. t. To put or place under.
  4. v. t. To yield, resign, or surrender to power, will, or authority; — often with the reflexive pronoun.
  5. v. t. 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.
  6. v. i. To yield one’s person to the power of another; to give up resistance; to surrender.
  7. v. i. To yield one’s opinion to the opinion of authority of another; to be subject; to acquiesce.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

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