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submits

submits is the third-person singular simple present indicative of submit.

Meaning of submit

Verb

submit (third-person singular simple present submits, present participle submitting, simple past and past participle submitted)

  1. (intransitive) To yield or give way to another.
    • They will not submit to the destruction of their rights.
  2. (transitive) To yield (something) to another, as when defeated.
  3. (ambitransitive) To enter or put forward for approval, consideration, marking etc.
    • I submit these plans for your approval.
  4. (transitive) To subject; to put through a process.
    • I was submitted to a binding pledge.
  5. (mixed, transitive) To win a fight against (an opponent) by submission.
    • [Ronda] Rousey, a former U.S. Olympian in Judo, caps off a perfect year in which she submitted Liz Carmouche in the first-ever UFC female fight and coached opposite [Miesha] Tate in "The Ultimate Fighter" reality series.2013 December 28, Brett Okamoto, “Ronda Rousey wins with arm bar”, in ESPN, retrieved 06 Jan 2014
  6. (obsolete, transitive) To let down; to lower.
    • Sometimes the hill submits itself a while.1662, John Dryden, Poem to the Lord Chancellor Hyde

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Submits is the third-person singular simple present indicative of submit.

Words near submits in the dictionary

  1. submissness
  2. submit
  3. submitochondrial
  4. submitogenic
  5. submitral
  6. submits
  7. submittable
  8. submittal
  9. submittals
  10. submittance
  11. submittances

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