profess (redirected from professes)

profess (Avow), verb acknowledge, admit, affirm, announce, assert, asseverate, assure, attest, aver, avouch, contend, declare, disclose, divulge, hold out, lay bare, lay open, maintain, make a statement, makean assertion, make clear, make evident, make known, own, pledge, proclaim, pronounce, put forth, put forward, set forth, state, subscribe to, tell, utter

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profess (Pretend), verb affect, claim, concoct, create a false impression, disguise, dissemble, dissimulate, fabricate, feign, give a false impression, imagine, make a show of, make believe, pass for, posture, practice chicanery, put a false construction upon, represent fictiiiously, sham, simulate

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See also: adduce, affirm, allege, annunciate, assert, assume, assure, avouch, avow, bear, claim, concede, contend, declare, depose, enunciate, maintain, palter, posit, pretend, purport, simulate, testify