baptize
Verb
Verb Forms: baptized, baptizing, baptizes
- To administer baptism to someone.
- administer baptism to
- "The parents had the child baptized"
- To perform the sacrament of baptism by sprinkling or pouring water over someone or immersing them in water.
- To Christianize.
- To dedicate or christen.
- Of rum, brandy, or any other spirits, to dilute with water.
- To ensure proper burning of a joint by moistening the exterior with saliva.
- To extinguish the life of.
Examples
- I’ll baptize this game with a Z on the triple-letter score.
Origin / Etymology
From Middle English baptisen, baptizen, from Old French baptiser, batisier, from Ecclesiastical Latin, Late Latin baptizāre, from Ancient Greek βαπτίζω (baptízō, “to immerse, plunge, baptize”).
Synonyms
baptise, christen, annihilate, bag, baptize, bereave of life, blight, bring down, bump off, bury, cack, compromised to a permanent end, croak, crush, dash, deactivate, dead, demolish, destroy, dispatch, dispose of, do, do in, dust, eliminate, end, eradicate, ex, exterminate, finish, finish off, flatten, full, grease, juice up, knock off, lay waste to, make away with, mortify, neutralize, obliterate, off, pay off, pick off, polish off, pop off, punch someone's ticket, put an end to, put down, put six feet under, put someone out of their misery, put to sleep, ravage, rub out, ruin, scotch, scupper, scuttle, send to eternity, send to hell, send to the grave, send to the great beyond, send to the next life, slaughter, slay, smash, smite, snuff, squash, stiff, stop someone's clock, take, take care of, take down, take out, terminate, terminate with extreme prejudice, top, top off, torpedo, waste, wax, wet, whack, wipe out, wreck
Scrabble Score: 20
baptize: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordbaptize: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
baptize: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary