PROFESSING Synonyms

• establish or strengthen as with new evidence or facts

• to declare or affirm solemnly and formally as true

• say yes to

• to declare or affirm solemnly and formally as true

• admit openly and bluntly; make no bones about

• an assertion of a right (as to money or property)

• an assertion that something is true or factual

• demand for something as rightful or due

• an informal right to something

• an established or recognized right

• a demand

• assert or affirm strongly; state to be true or existing

• demand as being one's due or property; assert one's right or title to

• ask for legally or make a legal claim to, as of debts, for example

• lay claim to; as of an idea

• take as an undesirable consequence of some event or state of affairs

• state emphatically and authoritatively

• announce publicly or officially

• state firmly

• declare to be

• authorize payments of

• designate (a trump suit or no-trump) with the final bid of a hand

• make a declaration (of dutiable goods) to a customs official

• proclaim one's support, sympathy, or opinion for or against

• mail that is distributed by a rapid and efficient system

• public transport consisting of a fast train or bus that makes only a few scheduled stops

• rapid transport of goods

• by express

• not tacit or implied

• without unnecessary stops

• give expression to

• articulate; either verbally or with a cry, shout, or noise

• serve as a means for expressing something

• indicate through a symbol, formula, etc.

• manifest the effects of (a gene or genetic trait)

• obtain from a substance, as by mechanical action

• send by rapid transport or special messenger service

• declare formally; declare someone to be something; of titles

• state or announce

• affirm or declare as an attribute or quality of

• praise, glorify, or honor

• the intended meaning of a communication

• the pervading meaning or tenor

• have the often specious appearance of being, intending, or claiming

• propose or intend

• the federal department in the United States that sets and maintains foreign policies

• the territory occupied by one of the constituent administrative districts of a nation

• the way something is with respect to its main attributes

• the group of people comprising the government of a sovereign state

• a politically organized body of people under a single government

• (chemistry) the three traditional states of matter are solids (fixed shape and volume) and liquids (fixed volume and shaped by the container) and gases (filling the container)

• a state of depression or agitation

• the territory occupied by a nation

• express in words

• put before

• indicate through a symbol, formula, etc.

• admit (to a wrongdoing)

• be willing to concede

• give over; surrender or relinquish to the physical control of another

• acknowledge defeat

• confess to a punishable or reprehensible deed, usually under pressure

• admit (to a wrongdoing)

• confess to God in the presence of a priest, as in the Catholic faith

• the enactment of a pretense

• imagined as in a play

• make believe with the intent to deceive

• behave unnaturally or affectedly

• put forward a claim and assert right or possession of

• put forward, of a guess, in spite of possible refutation

• represent fictitiously, as in a play, or pretend to be or act like

• state insincerely