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submitting

Syllables: sub·mit·ting/səbˈmɪtɪŋ/US/səbˈmɪtɪŋ/

submitting is the present participle and gerund 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

See all 7 meanings of submit

Noun

submitting (plural submittings)

  1. (formal, rare) A submission.
    • With something of her original archness, mingling with graver rebuke, Honoria reminded the rebel of certain dutiful expressions, and religious submittings of the will, with which he had so lately gratified her.1827, Anna Maria Porter, Honor O'Hara, volume 2, page 268
    • Did the Creator see fit to adopt the plan of creation through a series of variations, and submittings of them to selection; or did He, by his fiat, evoke the human form into its acknowledged perfection in an instant?1869, The British and Foreign Medico-chirurgical Review

Adjective

submitting (comparative more submitting, superlative most submitting)

  1. submissive

Forms of submitting

Noun
pluralsubmittings
Adjective
comparativemore submitting
superlativemost submitting

Words formed from submitting

Words that rhyme with submitting

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Questions about submitting

What does submitting mean?
Submitting means a submission.
What is submitting the present participle and gerund of?
Submitting is the present participle and gerund of submit.
What part of speech is submitting?
Submitting can be a noun or an adjective.
How do you pronounce submitting?
Submitting is pronounced /səbˈmɪtɪŋ/ (UK).
What is the plural of submitting?
The plural of submitting is submittings.

Words near submitting in the dictionary

  1. submittedst
  2. submitter
  3. submitters
  4. submittest
  5. submitteth
  6. submitting
  7. submittingly
  8. submittings
  9. submix
  10. submixed
  11. submixes

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