| pray | | |
| v. (communication) | 1. pray | address a deity, a prophet, a saint or an object of worship; say a prayer.; "pray to the Lord" |
| ~ commune | communicate intimately with; be in a state of heightened, intimate receptivity.; "He seemed to commune with nature" |
| v. (communication) | 2. beg, implore, pray | call upon in supplication; entreat.; "I beg you to stop!" |
| ~ crave | plead or ask for earnestly. |
| ~ supplicate | ask humbly (for something).; "He supplicated the King for clemency" |
| ~ plead | appeal or request earnestly.; "I pleaded with him to stop" |
| ~ importune, insist | beg persistently and urgently.; "I importune you to help them" |
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| submit | | |
| v. (communication) | 1. subject, submit | refer for judgment or consideration.; "The lawyers submitted the material to the court" |
| ~ give | submit for consideration, judgment, or use.; "give one's opinion"; "give an excuse" |
| ~ return | submit (a report, etc.) to someone in authority.; "submit a bill to a legislative body" |
| ~ refer | send or direct for treatment, information, or a decision.; "refer a patient to a specialist"; "refer a bill to a committee" |
| ~ relegate, pass on, submit | refer to another person for decision or judgment.; "She likes to relegate difficult questions to her colleagues" |
| v. (communication) | 2. posit, put forward, state, submit | put before.; "I submit to you that the accused is guilty" |
| ~ propose, suggest, advise | make a proposal, declare a plan for something.; "the senator proposed to abolish the sales tax" |
| v. (competition) | 3. submit | yield to the control of another. |
| ~ surrender, give up | give up or agree to forgo to the power or possession of another.; "The last Taleban fighters finally surrendered" |
| ~ subject | make accountable for.; "He did not want to subject himself to the judgments of his superiors" |
| v. (possession) | 4. present, submit | hand over formally. |
| ~ give | transfer possession of something concrete or abstract to somebody.; "I gave her my money"; "can you give me lessons?"; "She gave the children lots of love and tender loving care" |
| ~ bring in | submit (a verdict) to a court. |
| v. (social) | 5. pass on, relegate, submit | refer to another person for decision or judgment.; "She likes to relegate difficult questions to her colleagues" |
| ~ submit, subject | refer for judgment or consideration.; "The lawyers submitted the material to the court" |
| v. (communication) | 6. accede, bow, defer, give in, submit | yield to another's wish or opinion.; "The government bowed to the military pressure" |
| ~ buckle under, knuckle under, succumb, give in, yield | consent reluctantly. |
| v. (cognition) | 7. submit, take | accept or undergo, often unwillingly.; "We took a pay cut" |
| ~ test | undergo a test.; "She doesn't test well" |
| ~ undergo | pass through.; "The chemical undergoes a sudden change"; "The fluid undergoes shear"; "undergo a strange sensation" |
| ~ take | experience or feel or submit to.; "Take a test"; "Take the plunge" |
| v. (competition) | 8. put in, submit | make an application as for a job or funding.; "We put in a grant to the NSF" |
| ~ apply | ask (for something).; "He applied for a leave of absence"; "She applied for college"; "apply for a job" |
| v. (possession) | 9. render, submit | make over as a return.; "They had to render the estate" |
| ~ law, jurisprudence | the collection of rules imposed by authority.; "civilization presupposes respect for the law"; "the great problem for jurisprudence to allow freedom while enforcing order" |
| ~ gift, present, give | give as a present; make a gift of.; "What will you give her for her birthday?" |
| v. (cognition) | 10. reconcile, resign, submit | accept as inevitable.; "He resigned himself to his fate" |
| ~ accept | consider or hold as true.; "I cannot accept the dogma of this church"; "accept an argument" |
| surrender | | |
| n. (feeling) | 1. resignation, surrender | acceptance of despair. |
| ~ despair | the feeling that everything is wrong and nothing will turn out well.; "they moaned in despair and dismay"; "one harsh word would send her into the depths of despair" |
| ~ defeatism | acceptance of the inevitability of defeat. |
| n. (communication) | 2. giving up, surrender, yielding | a verbal act of admitting defeat. |
| ~ relinquishing, relinquishment | a verbal act of renouncing a claim or right or position etc.. |
| n. (act) | 3. surrender | the delivery of a principal into lawful custody. |
| ~ extradition | the surrender of an accused or convicted person by one state or country to another (usually under the provisions of a statute or treaty). |
| ~ legal transfer, livery, delivery | the voluntary transfer of something (title or possession) from one party to another. |
| n. (act) | 4. capitulation, fall, surrender | the act of surrendering (usually under agreed conditions).; "they were protected until the capitulation of the fort" |
| ~ loss | the act of losing someone or something.; "everyone expected him to win so his loss was a shock" |
| v. (competition) | 5. give up, surrender | give up or agree to forgo to the power or possession of another.; "The last Taleban fighters finally surrendered" |
| ~ abnegate | surrender (power or a position).; "The King abnegated his power to the ministers" |
| ~ yield | cease opposition; stop fighting. |
| ~ concede | acknowledge defeat.; "The candidate conceded after enough votes had come in to show that he would lose" |
| ~ capitulate | surrender under agreed conditions. |
| v. (possession) | 6. cede, deliver, give up, surrender | relinquish possession or control over.; "The squatters had to surrender the building after the police moved in" |
| ~ gift, present, give | give as a present; make a gift of.; "What will you give her for her birthday?" |
| ~ yield up | surrender, as a result of pressure or force. |
| ~ sell | give up for a price or reward.; "She sold her principles for a successful career" |
| ~ sign away, sign over | formally assign ownership of.; "She signed away her rights" |
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