Assert and Submit

verb

• State categorically.
  • synonyms: asseverate, maintain
• To declare or affirm solemnly and formally as true.
  • usage: "Before God I swear I am innocent"
  • synonyms: affirm, verify, avow, aver, swan, swear
• Insist on having one's opinions and rights recognized.
  • usage: "Women should assert themselves more"
  • synonyms: put forward
• Assert to be true.
  • usage: "The letter asserts a free society"
  • synonyms: insist

• (v.t.) To maintain; to defend.
• (v.t.) To maintain or defend, as a cause or a claim, by words or measures; to vindicate a claim or title to; as, to assert our rights and liberties.
• (v.t.) To affirm; to declare with assurance or plainly and strongly; to state positively; to aver; to asseverate.

verb

• Refer for judgment or consideration.
  • usage: "The lawyers submitted the material to the court"
  • synonyms: subject
• Put before.
  • usage: "I submit to you that the accused is guilty"
  • synonyms: state, put forward, posit
• Yield to the control of another.
• Hand over formally.
  • synonyms: present
• Refer to another person for decision or judgment.
  • usage: "She likes to relegate difficult questions to her colleagues"
  • synonyms: relegate, pass on
• Yield to another's wish or opinion.
  • usage: "The government bowed to the military pressure"
  • synonyms: bow, defer, accede, give in
• Accept or undergo, often unwillingly.
  • usage: "We took a pay cut"
  • synonyms: take
• Make an application as for a job or funding.
  • usage: "We put in a grant to the NSF"
  • synonyms: put in
• Make over as a return.
  • usage: "They had to render the estate"
  • synonyms: render
• Accept as inevitable.
  • usage: "He resigned himself to his fate"
  • synonyms: resign, reconcile

• (v.t.) To leave or commit to the discretion or judgment of another or others; to refer; as, to submit a controversy to arbitrators; to submit a question to the court; -- often followed by a dependent proposition as the object.
• (v.t.) To yield, resign or surrender to power, will or authority; -- often with the reflexive pronoun.
• (v.i.) To yield one's person to the power of another; to give up resistance; to surrender.
• (v.i.) To yield one's opinion to the opinion of authority of another; to be subject; to acquiesce.
• (v.i.) To be submissive or resigned; to yield without murmuring.
• (v.t.) To put or place under.
• (v.t.) To let down; to lower.