Submit vs Acquiesce - What's the difference?
submit | acquiesce | Synonyms |
To yield or give way to another.
or To enter or put forward for approval, consideration, marking etc.
* Macaulay
(mixed martial arts) To win a fight by submission.
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(obsolete) To let down; to lower.
* Dryden
(obsolete) To put or place under.
* Chapman
To rest satisfied, or apparently satisfied, or to rest without opposition and discontent (usually implying previous opposition or discontent); to accept or consent by silence or by omitting to object; — followed by "in", sometimes also by "with" and "to".
* (rfdate) .
To concur upon conviction; as, to acquiesce in an opinion; to assent to; usually, to concur, not heartily but so far as to forbear opposition.
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Acquiesce is a synonym of submit.
In intransitive terms the difference between submit and acquiesce
is that submit is to yield or give way to another while acquiesce is to concur upon conviction; as, to acquiesce in an opinion; to assent to; usually, to concur, not heartily but so far as to forbear opposition.submit
English
Verb
(submitt)- They will not submit to the destruction of their rights.
- I submit these plans for your approval.
- 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.
- "[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."
- Sometimes the hill submits itself a while.
- The bristled throat / Of the submitted sacrifice with ruthless steel he cut.
Derived terms
* submittable * submittal * submitterExternal links
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English
Verb
(acquiesc)- They were compelled to acquiesce in a government which they did not regard as just.
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