Contextualizebeta

rebaptize

verb

Etymology

From re- + baptize.

  1. derived from βαπτίζω — “to immerse, plunge, baptize”
  2. derived from baptizo
  3. derived from baptiser
  4. inherited from baptisen
  5. prefixed as rebaptize — “re + baptize”

Definitions

  1. To baptize again.

    • She's a freako religious number, pushing Christians into any trough of water handy to rebaptize them.

  2. To rename.

    • After the fire destroyed the Bronx pub, it was rebaptized “The Bronx 2”.

The neighborhood

Derived

rebaptizer

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for rebaptize. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA