Submit
To let down; to lower.
To put or place under.
To yield, resign, or surrender to power, will, or authority; -- often with the reflexive pronoun.
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.
To yield one's person to the power of another; to give up resistance; to surrender.
To yield one's opinion to the opinion of authority of another; to be subject; to acquiesce.
To be submissive or resigned; to yield without murmuring.
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Submit Quotations
I submit to you that if a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
I submit that an individual who breaks the law that conscience tells him is unjust and willingly accepts the penalty by staying in jail to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the very highest respect for law.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Virtuous people often revenge themselves for the constraints to which they submit by the boredom which they inspire.
Confucius
Every formula of every religion has in this age of reason, to submit to the acid test of reason and universal assent.
Mahatma Gandhi
The marvel of all history is the patience with which men and women submit to burdens unnecessarily laid upon them by their governments.
George Washington
Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have the exact measure of the injustice and wrong which will be imposed on them.
Frederick Douglass
I don't conquer, I submit.
Giacomo Casanova
We submit to the majority because we have to. But we are not compelled to call our attitude of subjection a posture of respect.
Ambrose Bierce
Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to that arrogant oligarchy who merely happen to be walking around.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
The arrogance of age must submit to be taught by youth.
Edmund Burke
Submit Translations
submit in Dutch is knechten, onderwerpen
submit in French is soumettre, soumettre, soumettons, soumettent
submit in Italian is sottoporre, soggiogare
submit in Latin is succedo
submit in Portuguese is submeta
submit in Spanish is someter
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