Reverse Dictionary: SUBMIT

ADJECTIVES
► AWE-BOUND under restraint or discipline so as to be orderly, obedient; bound by authority; held in check or submissiveness by awe or fear mingled with reverence or respect → 1631 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
► AWEBUND under restraint or discipline; submissive to authority → 1898 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► BUXOM submissive, humble, meek → 1300 obs.
► DEDITITIOUS yielding, submitting → 1727 obs.
► DEMISSIVE downcast, humble, submissive → 1630 obs.
► HALTER BROKE submissive, lacking in spirit → 1910 Amer. dial.
► HAND-TAME tame and submissive to handling; mild, gentle → 1300 obs.
► HANDTAMED reduced to submission → 1460 obs.
► LEATHSOME of a subservient or submissive nature → 1902 Eng. dial.
► MORIGEROUS obedient, dutiful, compliant, submissive → 1600 
► OBEDIBLE capable of obedience; obedient, docile, compliant, submissive, yielding → 1622 obs.
► OBSEQUENT compliant, yielding, obedient, submissive → 1520 obs.
► OBSEQUIOUS unduly or servilely compliant; ignobly submissive; manifesting or characterized by servile complaisance; fawning, cringing, sycophantic → 1602 
► OBTEMPERATE obedient, submissive → 1432 obs.
► PUSSYCAT gentle, amiable, submissive → 1867
► SHEEPISH excessively meek or submissive, fearful or timorous; mean-spirited → 1518
► SUBJECTLY obedient, submissive → 1603 obs.
► SUBMISS submissive to → 1570 obs.
► SUCCUMBENT subject, submissive to → 1645 obs.
► UNDERLOUT subservient, submissive, subject → 1300 Eng. dial. obs.
► UNDER MANNERS behaving as required, submitting to another person’s orders → 1990 W. Indies & Black British sl.

ADVERBS
► DOCIOUS quietly, submissively → 1853 Amer. dial.
► KNUCKLE-DOWN submissively → 1878 

NOUNS
► ACQUIESCEMENT acquiescence; resting satisfied; rest, quiet satisfaction; peaceful agreement or submission → 1721 obs.
► BUXOMNESS obedience; submissiveness; lowliness, humility → 1175 obs.
► DEDITION submission → 1667 obs.
► HAND-TAMENESS submissiveness, gentleness → 1300 obs.
► KNUCKLE-DOWN submission → 1878 
► OBSEQUIOUSNESS servile submission or complaisance; servility → 1613 
► SNUBBING POST a situation in which one must submit to discipline, face unpleasant facts, ‘bite the bullet’ → 1878 Amer. dial.
► SUCCUMBENCY a giving way or yielding; submission → 1653 
► SUMMISSION submission → 1563 obs.

NOUNS, PERSON
► ACQUIESCENT one who silently assents or submits → 1810 
► PUSSYCAT a gentle, amiable, or submissive person → 1823 colloq.
► SLAVELING a submissive or servile person → 1884 
► SPANIEL a submissive, cringing, or fawning person → 1598 

PHRASES
► DARE NOT QUETCH implies fear or absolute submission → 1300 obs.
► DURST NOT QUETCH implies fear or absolute submission → 1300 obs.
► NEEDS MUST WHEN THE DEVIL DRIVES one must submit however ungracefully to hard necessity → 1831 

VERBS
► ABEY to bend, to bow; to submit, to yield, to render obedience → 1300 obs.
► ABOW to bend, to incline, to bow, to stoop; fig. to do homage or reverence; to submit → 1000 obs.
► ACQUIESCE to remain in quiet subjection; to submit quietly; to remain submissive → 1680 obs.
► ADAUNT to quell, to subdue, to suppress, to reduce to submission → 1297 obs.
► ANTE UP to submit → 1969 Amer. dial.
► ASSHOLE to grovel, to submit or behave obsequiously → 1940 Amer. sl.
► BEND OVER to submit; to give in to someone → 1960 US sl.
► BIDE to await submissively, to submit to → 1275 obs.
► CARRY COALS to submit to any indignity → 1822 Sc.
► CHILL to let oneself be taken advantage of; to submit willingly to another’s domination → 20C Amer. sl.
► CORNHOLE to victimize someone; to force someone into submission → 1974 US sl.
► COUCH to submit, to succumb → 1386
► CRINGE to behave obsequiously or submissively; to show servile deference to a person → 1660
► EAT CRAP to submit to degrading treatment → 1930 US sl.
► EAT IT to submit to degrading treatment → 1928 US sl.
► EAT SHIT to submit to degrading treatment → 1930 US sl.
► GIVE ONE’S HEAD FOR WASHING to yield tamely and without resistance; to submit to be imposed upon or to overbearing insult → 1613 obs.
► GRUTCH to give or permit with reluctance; to grant or submit to unwillingly; to begrudge → 1899 Amer. dial.
► KNUCKLE ► KNUCKLE UNDER to acknowledge oneself beaten, to give in; to submit → 1735 
► KNUCKLE DOWN to bend, to yield, to comply with, or submit to → 1735 
► LEAD BY THE NOSE to cause to obey submissively → 1583 
► LEAD BY THE SLEEVE to cause to obey submissively → 1425 obs.
► LICK DOWN to physically assault; to force submission → 1994 UK sl.
► OBTEMPERATE to comply with, yield to, submit to, obey; to be obedient → 1432 
► ONBOW to submit, to yield → 971 obs.
► PULL DOWN THE BLINDS to submit, to give in → 1869 Eng. dial.
► PUPPIFY to make compliant and submissive; to fool → 1660 obs.
► SPANIELIZE ► SPANIELIZE IT ► SPANNIOLIZE ► SPANNIOLIZE IT to act like a spaniel; to be submissive or fawning → 1641
► SUMMISE to submise, to submit → 1450 obs.
► SUMMIT to submit, to subject → 1374 obs.
► TAKE IT UP THE ARSE to submit to a more powerful force → 2000 UK sl.
► VAIL THE BONNET to manifest submission; to acknowledge oneself overcome or surpassed; to yield, to give way → 1579 arch.
► VAIL 1. to submit, to yield, to show respect to some person, etc. → 1587 arch.
2. to lower in sign of submission or respect → 1599 arch.