The two most common meanings in everyday use, as well as in legal terms.
A. To submit (deliver, give, send, hand over, suggest, etc) something (a document, an oral statement, an idea, etc.)
Ex.
I will submit an application for the job.
I submitted my idea to the school board.
I submit that you were not at home as you claim you were.
B. To submit (permit, allow, obey, surrender, give in, give up, etc.) to someone's or something's wish or demand. (this use generally indicates that one does something reluctantly either because they have to or because they feel pressured)
Ex.
She submitted to his sexual advances.
I don't want to submit to my craving for chocolate cake and ice cream.
I will submit to the policeman's order to move my car.
Submit is also used to say something was applied to somebody.
He was submitted to torture. (subjected to, given, made to endure)
The poor child was submitted to the worst kind of inhumane treatment.
The hospital will submit chemotherapy to the cancer patient.
__________________
vicente 
|