Academic Word List

submit

Type: verb

Definitions: (verb) If you submit to some authority, you accept that they have power over you. (verb) If you submit something, usually a piece of writing, you give it to somebody to be checked or accepted.

Examples: (verb) The government refused to submit to the threat of violence from the terrorists. (verb) Students will submit their application with examples of work already done by March 31. (verb) They submitted their final report together with recommendations to the president.

Synonyms: verbs: present, offer. defer, surrender.

Academic Word List Sublist and Group: 7 B

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