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submit
A	verb
	1	take, undergo, submit
			accept or undergo, often unwillingly; "We took a pay cut"
		Category Tree: act; move ╚react; respond ╚accept; consent; go for ╚permit; allow; let; countenance ╚digest; endure; stick out; stomach; bear; stand; tolerate; support; brook; abide; suffer; put up ╚take, undergo, submit ╚test
	2	resign, reconcile, submit
			accept as inevitable; "He resigned himself to his fate"
		Category Tree: think; cogitate; cerebrate ╚judge ╚accept ╚resign, reconcile, submit
	3	submit, state, put forward, posit
			put before; "I submit to you that the accused is guilty"
		Category Tree: express; verbalize; verbalise; utter; give tongue to ╚state; say; tell ╚declare ╚propose; suggest; advise ╚submit, state, put forward, posit
	4	submit, bow, defer, accede, give in
			submit or yield to another's wish or opinion; "The government bowed to the military pressure"
		Category Tree: act; move ╚react; respond ╚accept; consent; go for ╚yield; give in; succumb; knuckle under; buckle under ╚submit, bow, defer, accede, give in
	5	submit, subject
			refer for judgment or consideration; "She submitted a proposal to the agency"
		Category Tree: move; displace ╚send; direct ╚refer ╚submit, subject ╚relegate; pass on; submit ╚return ╚give
	6	put in, submit
			make an application as for a job or funding; "We put in a grant to the NSF"
		Category Tree: move; displace ╚transfer ╚convey; transmit; communicate ╚communicate; pass on; pass; put across ╚request; bespeak; call for; quest ╚apply ╚put in, submit
	7	submit
			yield to the control of another

	8	present, submit
			hand over formally
		Category Tree: transfer ╚give ╚present, submit ╚bring in
	9	render, submit
			make over as a return; "They had to render the estate"
		Category Tree: give; gift; present ╚render, submit
	10	relegate, pass on, submit
			refer to another person for decision or judgment; "She likes to relegate difficult questions to her colleagues"
		Category Tree: move; displace ╚send; direct ╚refer ╚submit; subject ╚relegate, pass on, submit

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