professes is a form of:

Profess



verbpast 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
verbpast 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.
4.
(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