baptizes

The word “baptizes” has 3 syllables: bap-tiz-es

It's pronounced as /ˈbæp.taɪzɪz/


What is synonym and antonym for baptizes?

In the thesaurus, “baptizes” has 44 synonyms and 5 antonyms.

Here are synonyms and antonyms for baptizes along with examples of usage in sentences.


Synonyms for baptizes

  • accepts
  • admits
  • brands
  • calls
  • christens
  • clepes
  • code-names
  • consecrates
  • denominates
  • denotes
  • designates
  • dubs
  • enlists
  • enrolls
  • enrols
  • enshrines
  • entitles
  • inaugurates
  • inducts
  • initiates
  • installs
  • instates
  • invests
  • labels
  • miscalls
  • misnames
  • mistitles
  • names
  • nicknames
  • nominates
  • receives
  • rechristens
  • relabels
  • renames
  • seats
  • specifies
  • stigmatizes
  • styles
  • surnames
  • swears in
  • tags
  • takes in
  • terms
  • titles

Antonyms for baptizes

  • cans
  • discharges
  • fires
  • musters out
  • terminates

Meanings of baptizes

  • verb
    1. To perform the sacrament of baptism by sprinkling or pouring water over someone or immersing them in water.
    2. To dedicate or christen.
    3. Of rum, brandy, or any other spirits, to dilute with water.
    4. To ensure proper burning of a joint by moistening the exterior with saliva.

Example Sentences

  • The pastor baptizes new believers every Sunday at the church.
  • She baptizes infants as part of her role in the religious community.
  • The priest baptizes each child with a blessing during the ceremony.
  • The church regularly baptizes people who have converted to the faith.
  • In some cultures, the elder of the family baptizes children in a sacred ritual.

On this page you'll find 49 synonyms, antonyms, or another words to baptizes, such as: accepts, admits, brands, calls, cans, christens, clepes.

Make sure to choose synonyms and antonyms that are appropriate for the context of the sentence.

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  • abandons
  • aborts
  • abrogates
  • accounts
  • adjudications
  • alerts
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  • announces
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  • asks
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  • baptizes
  • barks
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  • beeps
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  • brands
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  • callbacks
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  • cancels
  • caterwauls
  • cautions
  • caws
  • charges
  • cheeps
  • chirps
  • choices
  • christens
  • cites
  • claims
  • clepes
  • clucks
  • code-names
  • cold calls
  • cold-calls
  • collects
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  • commandments
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  • conceives
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  • dubs
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  • judgements
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  • knells
  • labels
  • last words
  • looks up
  • lows
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  • mandates
  • markets
  • meetings
  • meows
  • messages
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  • miaows
  • minds
  • miscalls
  • misnames
  • mistitles
  • moos
  • musters
  • names
  • neighs
  • nicknames
  • nominates
  • notes
  • notions
  • nullifies
  • oinks
  • opinions
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  • ordains
  • orders
  • pages
  • peeps
  • persuasions
  • petitions
  • phones
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  • polls
  • portends
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  • prerogatives
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  • privileges
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  • puts
  • quacks
  • queries
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  • rallies
  • rates
  • reads
  • reasons
  • reassembles
  • recalls
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  • rechristens
  • reckons
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  • refusals
  • regards
  • relabels
  • relinquishes
  • renames
  • rendezvous
  • repeals
  • requests
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  • requisitions
  • rescinds
  • researches
  • resolutions
  • retracts
  • reverses
  • revokes
  • rights
  • rings
  • roars
  • rolls back
  • rounds up
  • rulings
  • runs in
  • say-sos
  • scraps
  • screams
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  • scrubs
  • sees
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  • sends for
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  • sentences
  • sentiments
  • sets down
  • shouts
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  • sounds off
  • speaks out
  • speaks up
  • specifies
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  • squeaks
  • squeals
  • steps in
  • stigmatizes
  • stopovers
  • stops
  • studies
  • styles
  • subpoenas
  • summons
  • supposes
  • surnames
  • surrenders
  • surveys
  • suspends
  • tags
  • takes back
  • takes for
  • telephones
  • terminates
  • terms
  • thinks
  • thunders
  • titles
  • toll calls
  • trumpets
  • trysts
  • tu-whit tu-whoos
  • twitters
  • ululates
  • understands
  • vaticinates
  • verdicts
  • views
  • visitations
  • visits
  • vociferates
  • voice mails
  • voids
  • wails
  • warns
  • whinnies
  • whistles
  • whoops
  • withdraws
  • words
  • writes off
  • yaps
  • yaups
  • yawps
  • yells
  • yelps
  • yips
  • yowls

hallows

  • baptizes
  • blesses
  • canonizes
  • chastens
  • cleanses
  • commits
  • consecrates
  • dedicates
  • devotes
  • exorcises
  • exorcizes
  • expurgates
  • lustrates
  • purifies
  • reconsecrates
  • sacralizes
  • sanctifies
  • spiritualizes

labels

names

  • Christian names
  • Potemkin villages
  • VIPs
  • abuses
  • accepts
  • adjudges
  • adjudicates
  • admirations
  • adopts
  • advertises
  • affectations
  • affronts
  • agname
  • agnomen
  • airs
  • alias
  • aliases
  • announce
  • announces
  • anoints
  • appearances
  • appellation
  • appellations
  • appellatives
  • appoint
  • appoints
  • arbitrates
  • arranges
  • assigns
  • attaches
  • attacks
  • authorizes
  • autograph
  • autonym
  • banners
  • baptismal names
  • baptize
  • baptizes
  • barbs
  • barons
  • big name
  • big shots
  • bigwigs
  • binomials
  • brand
  • brand names
  • brands
  • brickbats
  • brings up
  • broaches
  • broadcasts
  • bynames
  • call
  • calls
  • catcalls
  • causes celebres
  • celeb
  • celebrities
  • celebs
  • character
  • characterize
  • characters
  • cherry-picks
  • chews over
  • chooses
  • christen
  • christens
  • cite
  • cites
  • clarifies
  • classify
  • clepes
  • cloaks
  • code-names
  • cogitates
  • cognomen
  • cognomens
  • cognomina
  • cognominate
  • commission
  • commissions
  • compellation
  • compellations
  • concludes
  • connote
  • consecrates
  • considers
  • constitutes
  • contemplates
  • coordinates
  • creates
  • credit
  • credits
  • criticisms
  • crowns
  • cryptonyms
  • culls
  • cuts
  • darts
  • debates
  • decides
  • declare
  • declares
  • decrees
  • define
  • delegate
  • delegates
  • deliberates
  • demigods
  • demonstrations
  • denominate
  • denominates
  • denomination
  • denominations
  • denotations
  • denote
  • denotes
  • deputes
  • deputizes
  • designate
  • designates
  • designation
  • designations
  • destines
  • details
  • determines
  • dignitaries
  • digs
  • diminutives
  • disapprovals
  • dises
  • disgraces
  • disguises
  • dishonors
  • displays
  • disses
  • drafts
  • drops
  • dub
  • dubs
  • effects
  • elect
  • elects
  • elucidates
  • embraces
  • eminence
  • eminences
  • entertainer
  • entertains
  • enthrones
  • entitle
  • entitles
  • epithet
  • epithets
  • eponym
  • espouses
  • establishes
  • esteem
  • explains
  • explicates
  • exteriors
  • facades
  • faces
  • fames
  • family names
  • favorites
  • fictions
  • figures
  • finds
  • first names
  • fixes
  • flag
  • forenames
  • fronts
  • gibes
  • girds
  • give a handle
  • given names
  • glosses
  • guises
  • handle
  • handles
  • handpicks
  • head
  • heading
  • headliner
  • heartthrobs
  • hero
  • heroes
  • hints
  • honor
  • honors
  • hypocorisms
  • icons
  • identify
  • idols
  • ikons
  • images
  • imitations
  • immortals
  • implications
  • implies
  • impostures
  • impressions
  • inaugurates
  • index
  • indicates
  • indignities
  • inducts
  • infers
  • infiltrates
  • insinuates
  • insinuations
  • installs
  • instance
  • instances
  • instates
  • institutes
  • insults
  • intends
  • interjects
  • interpolates
  • interposes
  • intimates
  • introduces
  • invectives
  • invests
  • jeers
  • jibes
  • judges
  • kahunas
  • knocks
  • label
  • labels
  • lights
  • likenesses
  • lion
  • list
  • luminaries
  • luminary
  • magnates
  • maiden names
  • make
  • make-belief
  • make-believe
  • makes
  • mark
  • marks
  • masks
  • masquerades
  • matronymic
  • matronymics
  • meditates
  • megastars
  • mention
  • mentions
  • middle names
  • miscalls
  • misnames
  • misnomers
  • mistitles
  • mocks
  • moguls
  • monickers
  • moniker
  • monikers
  • monogram
  • monomials
  • monuments
  • nabobs
  • namesake
  • nickname
  • nicknames
  • nom de guerre
  • nom de plume
  • nomen
  • nomenclature
  • nomenclatures
  • nominate
  • nominates
  • noms de guerre
  • noms de plume
  • notabilities
  • notability
  • notable
  • notables
  • note
  • notes
  • notices
  • notorieties
  • odors
  • offences
  • offenses
  • opprobriums
  • opts
  • orchestrates
  • ordains
  • outrages
  • outwards
  • panjandra
  • panjandrums
  • patinae
  • patinas
  • patronymic
  • patronymics
  • peg
  • pen name
  • pen names
  • personae
  • personages
  • personalities
  • personality
  • personas
  • pet name
  • picks
  • pillars
  • pin down
  • place name
  • places
  • point to
  • pokes
  • ponders
  • poses
  • praise
  • prefers
  • prenomen
  • preselects
  • pretences
  • pretenses
  • proclaims
  • pronounces
  • proper name
  • pseudonym
  • pseudonyms
  • publicizes
  • publishes
  • put down for
  • put finger on
  • put tag on
  • put-downs
  • questions
  • quips
  • quotes
  • rechristens
  • recognize
  • refer to
  • referees
  • regards
  • relabels
  • remark
  • renames
  • renown
  • renowns
  • rep
  • report
  • reports
  • representations
  • reps
  • reputation
  • reputations
  • repute
  • reputes
  • resemblances
  • resolves
  • reverences
  • rubric
  • rubrics
  • rules
  • ruminates
  • sarcasms
  • seemings
  • select
  • selects
  • semblances
  • sets
  • settles
  • shames
  • shapes
  • shells
  • shows
  • sign
  • signals
  • signature
  • signifies
  • signify
  • simulations
  • single out
  • slams
  • slaps
  • slights
  • slot
  • slurs
  • sneers
  • sobriquet
  • sobriquets
  • somebodies
  • somebody
  • soubriquets
  • sounds
  • specifies
  • specify
  • spells out
  • stage name
  • standouts
  • star
  • stars
  • stigmatizes
  • studies
  • style
  • styles
  • suggest
  • suggestions
  • suggests
  • superstar
  • superstars
  • surfaces
  • surname
  • surnames
  • swipes
  • tab
  • tabs
  • tag
  • tags
  • takes
  • tap
  • taps
  • taunts
  • term
  • terms
  • thrones
  • ticket
  • title
  • titles
  • torments
  • tortures
  • trade name
  • trade names
  • trademarks
  • trivial names
  • umpires
  • veneers
  • vernaculars
  • vituperations
  • weighs
  • worms
  • worthies

sacralizes

  • baptizes
  • blesses
  • canonizes
  • chastens
  • cleanses
  • commits
  • consecrates
  • dedicates
  • devotes
  • exorcises
  • exorcizes
  • expurgates
  • hallows
  • lustrates
  • purifies
  • reconsecrates
  • sanctifies
  • spiritualizes

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