baptize

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Plain form
baptize

Third-person singular
baptizes

Past tense
baptized

Past participle
baptized

Present participle
baptizing

  1. If a pastor baptizes a person, they make them a christen by the ceremony in which he or she is touched or covered with holy water.
    The baby was baptized at the church yesterday.