Yield, submit, capitulate, succumb, relent, defer mean to give way to someone or something that one can no longer resist. If you submit a proposal, report, or request to someone, you formally send it to them so that they can consider it or decide about it. They submitted their reports to the chancellor yesterday.
See examples of submit used in a sentence. Definition of submit verb in oxford advanced learner's dictionary. 4 days agosubmit (third-person singular simple present submits, present participle submitting, simple past and past participle submitted) (intransitive) to yield or give way to another.
He refused to submit to their demands. We will not submit to you without a fight. Public outcry caused him to submit to an investigation of his finances.
To submit to something means to undergo or accept it. You must submit to a search if the police have a warrant.
