Submitted Submit Səbˈmɪt Extra Examples Verb Application/A Claim/A

• to submit an application/a claim/a proposal
• completed projects must be submitted by 10 march.
• she submitted her report to the committee.
• articles should be submitted electronically as email attachments.

submit

Verb Forms

1. to give a document, proposal, etc. to somebody in authority so that they can study or consider it
• to submit an application/a claim/a proposal
• Completed projects must be submitted by 10 March.
• She submitted her report to the committee.
• Articles should be submitted electronically as email attachments.

Extra Examples

• Candidates for the degree are required to submit a 30 000-word thesis.
• He formally submitted his resignation.
• Six groups were invited to submit proposals for the research.
• They have submitted plans for our approval.
• They have submitted an application for planning permission to build an extension.
2. to accept the authority, control or greater strength of somebody/something; to agree to something because of this
• SYNONYM give in (to somebody/something)
  https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/give-in
• She refused to submit to threats.
• He submitted himself to a search by the guards.

Extra Examples

• He submitted voluntarily to arrest.
• They abandoned their town rather than submit to the Persians.
• They were forced to submit to Bulgarian rule.
3. to say or suggest something
• Counsel for the defence submitted that the evidence was inadmissible.

Extra Examples

• May I respectfully submit that this is not the right thing to do?
• She submitted that the local authority should bear the cost.

Word Origin

• late Middle English: from Latin submittere, from sub- ‘under’ + mittere ‘send, put’. Sense (1) ‘present for judgement’ dates from the mid 16th cent.