What are the opposite words for submitting to?

The antonyms for the phrase "submitting to" are resisting, opposing, defying, challenging, and rebelling. When a person resists or opposes, they refuse to bow down to someone or something. They show their strength and determination to stand up for themselves. Similarly, defying means to openly challenge authority or power. Challenging is another word for resisting or confronting something or someone. Finally, rebelling is the act of defying authority or convention to create change or establish one's own rules. Each of these words has a unique nuance but share in the sentiment of rejecting someone or something's authority or control over a person's actions or ideas.

What are the antonyms for Submitting to?

• n.

  • getting
  • Abandoning
  ,
  • Rejecting
  ,
  • giving up
  ,
  • losing
  ,
  • refusal
  ,
  • throwing off
  .

• v.

  • accept
  • blackball
  ,
  • contradict
  ,
  • decline
  ,
  • defend
  ,
  • demur
  ,
  • deny
  ,
  • disagree
  ,
  • disallow
  ,
  • disapprove
  ,
  • discard
  ,
  • dispute
  ,
  • dissent
  ,
  • fight
  ,
  • misunderstand
  ,
  • refuse
  ,
  • reject
  ,
  • renounce
  ,
  • repudiate
  ,
  • stop
  .
  • endure
  • discontinue
  ,
  • halt
  ,
  • hide
  ,
  • hold
  ,
  • keep
  ,
  • maintain
  ,
  • oppose
  ,
  • resist
  ,
  • retreat
  ,
  • run away
  ,
  • surrender
  ,
  • yield
  .
  • stomach
  • avoid
  ,
  • dodge
  ,
  • shun
  .
  • take
  • abstain
  ,
  • add
  ,
  • be honest
  ,
  • be immune
  ,
  • disenchant
  ,
  • fail
  ,
  • give
  ,
  • lose
  ,
  • misconceive
  ,
  • offer
  ,
  • repulse
  ,
  • turn away
  .
  • tolerate
  • check
  ,
  • exclude
  ,
  • expel
  ,
  • veto
  .
  • undergo
  • DO
  ,
  • commit
  ,
  • execute
  ,
  • let go
  .

• Other relevant words:

• defy
,
• withdraw
.

Famous quotes with Submitting to

• To study history means submitting to chaos and nevertheless retaining faith in order and meaning.

  Hermann Hesse
• Fear does not have any special power unless you empower it by submitting to it.

  Les Brown
• A House Divided Understand what is at stake in the decision we make for or against Jesus Christ. To serve God’s true and eternal King is to enter the way to everlasting life. Through faith in Christ, we will enter paradise. But to reject the kingship of Christ is to fall under the judgment of God. If we go our own way in life—if we insist on having the upper hand over other people, refusing to give up our foolish and selfish pleasures, always breaking God’s commandments and never submitting to his will for our lives—then we will never enter the kingdom of God. Unless we repent, we will be lost forever.

  PHILIP GRAHAM RYKEN
• Women do learn how to be submissive to your husbands, because it brings about true love. Besides, nothing weakens a man like a humble wife. Yes! you heard me right, you can and will terminate marriage pressure by submitting to your husband. Moreover, any woman who shows off how more intelligent or better off she is than her husband will sooner or later have high blood pressure as her nemesis or punishment.

  Emeasoba George
• The world is amazed at how 'cruel' it is! (This is very funny to think about!) And then, when the 'chips are down' (Sartre's favorite expression), Sartre, who has never gambled but is enamored of the terminology of a kind of daring that doesn't involve getting his ass skinned, 'martyrs' himself. It is the same kind of responsibility anyone takes upon himself by submitting to your bad opinion of him by hanging his head and agreeing with all the accusations - and then, when he has done that, forlornly tells you he is sorry it rained last night, sorry the price of tea went up, etc. etc.

  Jack Abbott

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