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Submit vs Repay - What's the difference?

submit | repay |

As verbs the difference between submit and repay

is that submit is to yield or give way to another while repay is to pay back.

submit

English

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.
  • * '>citation
    • "[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.

    Derived terms

    * submittable * submittal * submitter

    Related terms

    * submission * submissive

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    repay

    English

    Verb

  • To pay back.
    • I finally repaid my student loans, just before sending my kids to college.

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