Subserve vs Submit - What's the difference?
subserve | submit |
To serve to promote (an end); to be useful to.
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To assist in carrying out.
* Glanvill
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.
* '>citation
(obsolete) To let down; to lower.
* Dryden
(obsolete) To put or place under.
* Chapman
As verbs the difference between subserve and submit
is that subserve is to serve to promote (an end); to be useful to while submit is to yield or give way to another.subserve
English
Verb
(en-verb)- 'Tis a greater credit to know the ways of captivating Nature, and making her subserve our purposes, than to have learned all the intrigues of policy.
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.