| Verb | 1. | profess - practice as a profession, teach, or claim to be knowledgeable about; "She professes organic chemistry"claim - assert or affirm strongly; state to be true or existing; "He claimed that he killed the burglar" | |
| 2. | profess - confess one's faith in, or allegiance to; "The terrorists professed allegiance to the Muslim faith"; "he professes to be a Communist"declare - state emphatically and authoritatively; "He declared that he needed more money to carry out the task he was charged with" | |
| 3. | profess - admit, make a clean breast of; "She confessed that she had taken the money"acknowledge, admit - declare to be true or admit the existence or reality or truth of; "He admitted his errors"; "She acknowledged that she might have forgotten" | |
| 4. | profess - state freely; "The teacher professed that he was not generous when it came to giving good grades"declare - state emphatically and authoritatively; "He declared that he needed more money to carry out the task he was charged with" | |
| 5. | profess - receive into a religious order or congregationprofess - take vows, as in religious order; "she professed herself as a nun" admit, take on, accept, take - admit into a group or community; "accept students for graduate study"; "We'll have to vote on whether or not to admit a new member" | |
| 6. | profess - take vows, as in religious order; "she professed herself as a nun"vow - make a vow; promise; "He vowed never to drink alcohol again" take the veil - become a nun; "The young woman took the veil after ther fiance died" profess - receive into a religious order or congregation | |
| 7. | profess - state insincerely; "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"claim - assert or affirm strongly; state to be true or existing; "He claimed that he killed the burglar" | |