Follow and Submit

Follow

Follow verb - To act according to the commands of.
Usage example: follow me, and you'll do OK

Submit and follow are semantically related in observe topic. In some cases you can use "Submit" instead a verb "Follow", when it comes to topics like obey.

Nearby Words: following, follower, followed

Submit

Submit verb - To cease resistance (as to another's arguments, demands, or control).

Follow and submit are semantically related in observe topic. Sometimes you can use "Follow" instead a verb "Submit", if it concerns topics such as obey.

Nearby Words: submission, submitted, submitting

Common collocations

character follow character submit character
life follow life submit life
order follow order submit order
way follow way submit way
Other words: characters, rule, story, orders.

Both words in one sentence

  • The Last of These Is Not Like the Others The news aggregator website Drew Curtis' Fark.com allows viewers to submit news articles for discussion with new, (hopefully humorous), headlines, many of which follow this trope.
  • Wrestling / Andrei Kopylov Kopylov was actually as difficult to submit as good himself submitting people, and he didn't lack toughness as well, but he lacked the cardio to follow up with his offense through the matches.
  • Literature / Dune You can follow someone, but to utterly submit to them leads to total destruction.
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