submit

To give work or documents to someone so they can check or approve them.

• Please submit your application today.
• I submitted my essay before the deadline.
• Have you submitted the form online?

How to use it: submit something to someone/something (Please submit your report to the manager.); submit something for something (She submitted her essay for assessment.)

Similar words: send in, hand in

Common phrases: submit a report, submit an application, submit something online, submit a proposal

To accept another person’s power over you or stop resisting what they demand.

• They refused to submit to his authority.
• She finally submitted to pressure from her family.
• Must we submit to every demand they make?

How to use it: submit to someone/something (The rebels refused to submit to the king.)

Similar words: yield, give in

Opposites: resist

Common phrases: submit to authority, submit to pressure

To make someone or something experience a process, test, or treatment.

• They submitted the material to several tests.
• Every patient was submitted to a detailed examination.
• The proposal was submitted to close scrutiny.

How to use it: submit someone/something to something (The researchers submitted each sample to further analysis.)

Similar words: subject

Common phrases: submit something to testing, submit someone to examination