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purportingverbpresent participle of purport to have in mind as a purpose or goaldo you purport to spend the rest of your life on that couch, or do you think you might get a job someday? aiming, allowing(chiefly Southern & Midland), aspiring, calculating, contemplating, designing, going(chiefly Southern & Midland), intending, looking, meaning, meditating, planning, proposing, purposing dreaming, hoping, wishingconsidering, debating, mulling (over), ponderingattempting, endeavoring, striving, struggling, tryingplotting, schemingaccomplishing, achieving, effecting, executing, performing figuring on to state as a fact usually forcefullyhe purports to be an expert in criminalistics affirming, alleging, asserting, averring, avouching, avowing, claiming, contending, declaring, insisting, maintaining, professing, protesting, warranting announcing, broadcasting, proclaimingarguing, rationalizing, reasoningconfirming, justifying, vindicatingdefending, persevering, supporting, upholdingreaffirming, reasserting putting forth denying, gainsaying abandoningdisavowing, disclaiming, disowning, negating, negativing, rejecting, repudiatingchallenging, disputing, questioningconfuting, disproving, rebutting, refutingcontradicting, countering |