Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of verb submit
10 senses of submit
Sense 1
submit, subject -- (refer for judgment or consideration; "The lawyers submitted the material to the court")
=> refer -- (send or direct for treatment, information, or a decision; "refer a patient to a specialist"; "refer a bill to a committee")
Sense 2
submit, state, put forward, posit -- (put before; "I submit to you that the accused is guilty")
=> propose, suggest, advise -- (make a proposal, declare a plan for something; "the senator proposed to abolish the sales tax")
Sense 3
submit -- (yield to the control of another)
Sense 4
present, submit -- (hand over formally)
=> give -- (transfer possession of something concrete or abstract to somebody; "I gave her my money"; "can you give me lessons?"; "She gave the children lots of love and tender loving care")
Sense 5
relegate, pass on, submit -- (refer to another person for decision or judgment; "She likes to relegate difficult questions to her colleagues")
=> submit, subject -- (refer for judgment or consideration; "The lawyers submitted the material to the court")
Sense 6
submit, bow, defer, accede, give in -- (yield to another's wish or opinion; "The government bowed to the military pressure")
=> yield, give in, succumb, knuckle under, buckle under -- (consent reluctantly)
Sense 7
take, submit -- (accept or undergo, often unwillingly; "We took a pay cut")
=> undergo -- (pass through; "The chemical undergoes a sudden change"; "The fluid undergoes shear"; "undergo a strange sensation")
Sense 8
put in, submit -- (make an application as for a job or funding; "We put in a grant to the NSF")
=> apply -- (ask (for something); "He applied for a leave of absence"; "She applied for college"; "apply for a job")
Sense 9
render, submit -- (make over as a return; "They had to render the estate")
=> give, gift, present -- (give as a present; make a gift of; "What will you give her for her birthday?")
Sense 10
resign, reconcile, submit -- (accept as inevitable; "He resigned himself to his fate")
=> accept -- (consider or hold as true; "I cannot accept the dogma of this church"; "accept an argument")