Verb

(submitt)

To yield or give way to another.

They will not submit to the destruction of their rights.

or To enter or put forward for approval, consideration, marking etc.

I submit these plans for your approval.

* Macaulay

We submit that a wooden spoon of our day would not be justified in calling Galileo and Napier blockheads because they never heard of the differential calculus.

(mixed martial arts) To win a fight by submission.

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"[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."

(obsolete) To let down; to lower.

* Dryden

Sometimes the hill submits itself a while.

(obsolete) To put or place under.

* Chapman

The bristled throat / Of the submitted sacrifice with ruthless steel he cut.

Verb

(en verb)

To declare with assurance or plainly and strongly; to state positively.

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he would often assert his beliefs to us

To use or exercise and thereby prove the existence of.

to assert one's authority

Salman Rushdie has asserted his right ... to be identified as the author of this work

To maintain or defend, as a cause or a claim, by words or measures; to vindicate a claim or title to; as, to assert our rights and liberties.

The quasi-judicial pre-grant process of asserting patent rights and appeals procedures during patent examination; 'to assert' patent rights means to defend or maintain patent rights.

(computer science) To make true; to make equal to 1. (rfex)