profess

Từ điển WordNet v3.1 - WordNet Dictionary

verb

1. practice as a profession, teach, or claim to be knowledgeable about (Freq. 4)
- She professes organic chemistry
• Hypernyms:
claim
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s something
- They profess to move
2. confess one's faith in, or allegiance to (Freq. 3)
- The terrorists professed allegiance to their country
- he professes to be a Communist
• Derivationally related forms:
professing
• Hypernyms:
declare
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s something
- Somebody ----s that CLAUSE
3. admit (to a wrongdoing) (Freq. 1)
- She confessed that she had taken the money
• Syn:
concede, confess
• Derivationally related forms:
confession (for: confess), confessor (for: confess), profession
• Hypernyms:
admit, acknowledge
• Hyponyms:
make a clean breast of, own up, fess up
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s something
- Somebody ----s that CLAUSE
4. state freely
- The teacher professed that he was not generous when it came to giving good grades
• Hypernyms:
declare
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s that CLAUSE
5. receive into a religious order or congregation
• Hypernyms:
accept, admit, take, take on
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s somebody
6. take vows, as in religious order
- she professed herself as a nun
• Derivationally related forms:
profession
• Hypernyms:
vow
• Hyponyms:
take the veil
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s
- Somebody ----s somebody
7. 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
• Syn:
pretend
• Hypernyms:
claim
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s something
- Somebody ----s that CLAUSE

• Từ đồng nghĩa / Synonyms:
  pretend, concede, confess