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debaptized

debaptized is the simple past and past participle of debaptize.

Meaning of debaptize

Verb

debaptize (third-person singular simple present debaptizes, present participle debaptizing, simple past and past participle debaptized)

  1. (transitive) To undo the baptism of.
    • New street names cannot cause confusion with existing streets, nor is it any longer permitted to debaptize parts of streets in order to give them new names […]1999, Mary Blume, A French Affair: The Paris Beat, 1965-1998, page 25
  2. (transitive) To rename or to remove a name from.
    • The volkisch leanings were therefore, for example, to debaptize the Christian festivals and consecrate them instead to the gods of the Teutons, who constituted the Volksgeist, the “heritage from the ancestors” or the genius of the race.2004, Eric Michaud, The Cult of Art in Nazi Germany, tr. from French by Janet Lloyd, Stanford University Press, →ISBN, page 91

Questions about debaptized

What is debaptized the simple past and past participle of?
Debaptized is the simple past and past participle of debaptize.

Words near debaptized in the dictionary

  1. debaptises
  2. debaptising
  3. debaptism
  4. debaptisms
  5. debaptize
  6. debaptized
  7. debaptizes
  8. debaptizing
  9. debar
  10. debarb
  11. debarbarization

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