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| 1. | [ verb ] practice as a profession, teach, or claim to be knowledgeable about | |
| Examples: | "She professes organic chemistry" |
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| Related terms: | claim | |
| 2. | [ verb ] confess one's faith in, or allegiance to | |
| Examples: | "The terrorists professed allegiance to the Muslim faith" "he professes to be a Communist" |
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| Related terms: | declare declare professing | |
| 3. | [ verb ] make a clean breast of | |
| Synonyms: | concede confess | |
| Examples: | "She confessed that she had taken the money" |
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| Related terms: | admit confession professing | |
| 4. | [ verb ] state insincerely | |
| Synonyms: | pretend | |
| Examples: | "He professed innocence but later admitted his guilt" "She pretended not to have known the suicide bomber" "She pretends to be an expert on wine" |
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| Related terms: | claim | |
| 5. | [ verb ] receive into a religious order or congregation | |
| Related terms: | accept | |
| 6. | [ verb ] state freely | |
| Examples: | "The teacher professed that he was not generous when it came to giving good grades" |
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| Related terms: | declare | |
| 7. | [ verb ] take vows, as in religious order | |
| Examples: | "she professed herself as a nun" |
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| Related terms: | vow take_the_veil profession | |
| Similar spelling: |
professor professed profession professing Propes profuse preface profusion profusely |
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