submit

Meanings

1. 1
   verb

   put before

   I submit to you that the accused is guilty

2. 2
   verb

   refer for judgment or consideration

   The lawyers submitted the material to the court

3. 3
   verb

   To yield or give way to another.

   They will not submit to the destruction of their rights.

4. 4
   verb

   To enter or put forward for approval, consideration, marking etc.

   I submit these plans for your approval.

5. 5
   verb

   To subject; to put through a process.

   I was submitted to a binding pledge.

6. 6
   verb

   To win a fight against (an opponent) by submission.

   [Ronda] Rousey, a former U.S. Olympian in Judo, caps off a perfect year in which she submitted Liz Carmouche in the first-ever UFC female fight and coached opposite [Miesha] Tate in "The Ultimate Fighter" reality series.

7. 7
   verb

   To let down; to lower.

   Sometimes the hill submits itself a while.

8. 8
   verb

   To put or place under.

   The bristled throat / Of the submitted sacrifice with ruthless steel he cut.

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.