Synonyms for submit
Definitions
- v. 1
To yield or give way to another.
We submit to their superior judgment.
- v. 2
To yield (something) to another, as when defeated.
- v. 3
To enter or put forward for approval, consideration, marking etc.
I submit these plans for your approval.
- v. 4
To subject; to put through a process.
I was submitted to a binding pledge.
Related words
- Word family
- submittable submittal submission submissive
Forms
- Past participle
- submitted
e.g. submitted → acquiesced, surrendered, deferred, obeyed…
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To submit or yield is to bend the mind humbly to another's wishes.
J. C. Fernald, English Synonyms and Antonyms (1914)
Example sentences
- surrender Sami was forced by the police to surrender his dog.
- obey There is nothing for you to do but obey the rules.
- defer I defer to no one in my admiration for these heroes.
- acquiesce Mennad cannot acquiesce to this request.
- commit The poet attempted to commit suicide in his study.
- propose I should propose to her, but I know I'll get a no.
By length
- 3 letters
- lay1, bow1
- 4 letters
- take1, bear1, bend1, obey2
- 5 letters
- state1, argue2, yield1, defer2, posit2
- 6 letters
- commit2, comply2, render2, accede2
- 7 letters
- present2, subject2, suggest2, consent2, propose2, conform2, knuckle2, succumb2, truckle
- 8 letters
- relegate3
- 9 letters
- surrender3, reconcile3, acquiesce3
- 10 letters
- capitulate4
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (obey2 = 2 syllables).
In other languages
- Français
- se soumettre
- Italiano
- sottomettersi
- Deutsch
- unterziehen