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Phrase(s): submit someone or something to something
to allow someone or something to undergo the effects of something. • I hate to submit you to all this questioning, but that is the way we do things here. • Don’t submit your car to a lot of misuse.
McGrawhill's American Idioms And Phrasal Verbs
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verb give/propose sth so that it can be discussed ADV. formally He formally submitted his resignation VERB + SUBMIT ask sb to, invite sb to, require sb to Six groups were invited to submit proposals for the research. Candidates for the degree are required to submit a 30,000-word thesis. PREP. for They have submitted plans for our approval. | to She submitted her report to the committee. accept sb's power/control ADV. voluntarily, willingly He submitted voluntarily to arrest. | meekly VERB + SUBMIT refuse to | be willing to | be compelled to, be forced to, be obliged to They were forced to submit to Bulgarian rule. PREP. to She refused to submit to threats. They abandoned their town rather than submit to the Persians.
Oxford Collocations Dictionary