Decrease and Submit

noun

• A change downward.
  • usage: "there was a decrease in his temperature as the fever subsided"; "there was a sharp drop-off in sales"
  • synonyms: lessening, drop-off
• A process of becoming smaller or shorter.
  • synonyms: decrement
• The amount by which something decreases.
  • synonyms: decrement
• The act of decreasing or reducing something.
  • synonyms: diminution, reduction, step-down

verb

• Decrease in size, extent, or range.
  • usage: "The amount of homework decreased towards the end of the semester"; "The cabin pressure fell dramatically"; "her weight fell to under a hundred pounds"; "his voice fell to a whisper"
  • synonyms: diminish, lessen, fall
• Make smaller.
  • usage: "He decreased his staff"
  • synonyms: lessen, minify

• (v.t.) To cause to grow less; to diminish gradually; as, extravagance decreases one's means.
• (v.) A becoming less; gradual diminution; decay; as, a decrease of revenue or of strength.
• (n.) To grow less, -- opposed to increase; to be diminished gradually, in size, degree, number, duration, etc. or in strength, quality or excellence; as, they days decrease in length from June to December.
• (v.) The wane of the moon.

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.