v.
1.practice as a profession, teach, or claim to be knowledgeable about
2.confess one's faith in, or allegiance to
3.admit, make a clean breast of
4.state freely
5.receive into a religious order or congregation
6.take vows, as in religious order
7.state insincerely
Idiom of the Day
bottle (something) up or bottle up (something)
to hold one's feelings inside of you
My aunt bottles up her feelings and has much stress because of it.