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BAPTISE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does baptise mean?
• BAPTISE (verb)
The verb BAPTISE has 1 sense:
1. administer baptism to
Familiarity information: BAPTISE used as a verb is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
| Conjugation: |
Present simple: I / you / we / they baptise ... he / she / it baptises
Past simple: baptised
Past participle: baptised
-ing form: baptising
... he / she / it baptises Past simple: baptised
Past participle: baptised
-ing form: baptising
Sense 1
Meaning:
Administer baptism to
Classified under:
Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing
Synonyms:
Context example:
The parents had the child baptized
Hypernyms (to "baptise" is one way to...):
be known as; call; know as; name (assign a specified (usually proper) proper name to)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Somebody ----s somebody something
Sentence example:
They baptise him "Bobby"
Derivation:
baptism (a Christian sacrament signifying spiritual cleansing and rebirth)
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