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Adjective professed has 3 senses
  1. professed - professing to be qualified; "a professed philosopher"
    Antonym:     nonprofessional (indirect, via professional)
  2. professed - claimed with intent to deceive; "his professed intentions"
    Antonym:     undeclared (indirect, via declared)
  3. avowed, professed - openly declared as such; "an avowed enemy"; "her professed love of everything about that country"; "McKinley was assassinated by a professed anarchist"
    Antonym: undeclared (indirect, via declared)
,Verb profess has 7 senses
  1. profess - practice as a profession, teach, or claim to be knowledgeable about; "She professes organic chemistry"
    --1 is one way to     claim
    Sample sentence:
    They profess to move
  2. profess - confess one's faith in, or allegiance to; "The terrorists professed allegiance to the Muslim faith"; "he professes to be a Communist"
    --2 is one way to     declare
    Derived form: noun professing1
    Sample sentences:
    Somebody ----s something
    Somebody ----s that CLAUSE
  3. concede, profess, confess - admit, make a clean breast of; "She confessed that she had taken the money"
    --3 is one way to admit, acknowledge
    Derived form: noun profession3
    Sample sentences:
    Somebody ----s something
    Somebody ----s that CLAUSE
  4. profess - state freely; "The teacher professed that he was not generous when it came to giving good grades"
    --4 is one way to     declare
    Sample sentence:
    Somebody ----s that CLAUSE
  5. profess - receive into a religious order or congregation
    --5 is one way to     accept, admit, take, take on
    Sample sentence:
    Somebody ----s somebody
  6. profess - take vows, as in religious order; "she professed herself as a nun"
    --6 is one way to     vow
    Derived form: noun profession4
    Sample sentences:
    Somebody ----s
    Somebody ----s somebody
  7. profess, pretend - 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"
    --7 is one way to claim
    Sample sentences:
    Somebody ----s something
    Somebody ----s that CLAUSE
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