professes is a form of:
Profess
verb — past tense: professed ; past participle: professed ; present participle: professing ;
- 1.
- (TRANSITIVE) (To make an open declaration of affirm, to declare openly and freely, to claim pretend) profess innocence អះអាង (ថា) profess his objection បង្ហាញ profess Christianity កាន់
Example: I don't profess expert knowledge of this subject. - 2.
- ពាក្យប្រមាថ
- 3.
- (បច្ចេកទេស) អះអាង, ប្រកាសកាន់ (សាសនា), បញ្ចេញគំនិត ធើ្វអោយដឹង
ENGLISH MEANING
verb — past tense: professed ; past participle: professed ; present participle: professing ;
- 1.
- (TRANSITIVE) To make open declaration of, as of one's knowledge, belief, action, etc.; to avow or acknowledge; to confess publicly; to own or admit freely.
- 2.
- (TRANSITIVE) To set up a claim to; to make presence to; hence, to put on or present an appearance of.
- 3.
- (TRANSITIVE) To present to knowledge of, to proclaim one's self versed in; to make one's self a teacher or practitioner of, to set up as an authority respecting; to declare (one's self to be such); as, he professes surgery; to profess one's self a physician.
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- (INTRANSITIVE) To take a profession upon one's self by a public declaration; to confess.
- 5.
- (INTRANSITIVE) To declare friendship.
- 1.
- affirm, announce, assert, aver, broadcast, declare, express, make known, proclaim, promulgate, protest, state, tell
- 1.
- conceal, repress, suppress, withhold