Meaning

  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. (mixed, transitive) To win a fight against (an opponent) by submission.
  6. (obsolete, transitive) To let down; to lower.
  7. (obsolete, transitive) To put or place under.

Frequency

C1
Pronounced as (IPA)
/səbˈmɪt/
Etymology

In summary

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.

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