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submit

 
 
/səbˈmɪt/ verb (present participle submitting, past tense and past participle submitted)

Definition

DOCUMENT [T] to send a document, plan, etc to someone so that they can consider it: Applications must be submitted before 31 January.
OBEY [I] to accept that someone has control over you and do what they tell you to do: He was forced to submit to a full body search.
(Definition of submit verb from the Cambridge Learner's Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

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