submit

submit is a 6-letter English word with 17 senses as transitive verb, intransitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To let down; to lower. Face value is 10 in Scrabble and 13 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

6 letters · Scrabble 10 · Words With Friends 13 · 17 senses

Definitions

1. transitive verb. To let down; to lower.
2. transitive verb. To put or place under.
3. transitive verb. To yield, resign, or surrender to power, will, or authority; -- often with the reflexive pronoun.
4. transitive verb. 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.
5. intransitive verb. To yield one's person to the power of another; to give up resistance; to surrender.
6. intransitive verb. To yield one's opinion to the opinion of authority of another; to be subject; to acquiesce.
7. intransitive verb. To be submissive or resigned; to yield without murmuring.
8. verb. accept or undergo, often unwillingly

   "We took a pay cut"

   Synonyms: take

9. verb. accept as inevitable

   "He resigned himself to his fate"

   Synonyms: reconcile, resign

10. verb. put before

    "I submit to you that the accused is guilty"

    Synonyms: posit, state

11. verb. yield to another's wish or opinion

    "The government bowed to the military pressure"

    Synonyms: accede, bow, defer

12. verb. refer for judgment or consideration

    "The lawyers submitted the material to the court"

    Synonyms: subject

13. verb. make an application as for a job or funding

    "We put in a grant to the NSF"

14. verb. yield to the control of another
15. verb. hand over formally

    Synonyms: present

16. verb. make over as a return

    "They had to render the estate"

    Synonyms: render

17. verb. refer to another person for decision or judgment

    "She likes to relegate difficult questions to her colleagues"

    Synonyms: relegate

Synonyms

take, reconcile, resign, posit, state, accede, bow, defer, subject, present, render, relegate

Common word forms

submits, submitted, submitter, submitting

Words from these letters

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