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rebaptise

rebaptise is the alternative form of rebaptize.

Meaning of rebaptize

Verb

rebaptize (third-person singular simple present rebaptizes, present participle rebaptizing, simple past and past participle rebaptized)

  1. (transitive) To baptize again.
    • She's a freako religious number, pushing Christians into any trough of water handy to rebaptize them.1976 August 14, Bunny LaRue, “Levitation Anyone?”, in Gay Community News, volume 4, number 7, page 5
  2. (transitive) To rename.
    • After the fire destroyed the Bronx pub, it was rebaptized “The Bronx 2”.

Forms of rebaptise

third-person singular presentrebaptises
present participlerebaptising
past participlerebaptised
pastrebaptised

Origin of rebaptise

From re- + baptise.

Questions about rebaptise

What is rebaptise the alternative form of?
Rebaptise is the alternative form of rebaptize.

Words near rebaptise in the dictionary

  1. rebanned
  2. rebanning
  3. rebans
  4. rebaptisation
  5. rebaptisations
  6. rebaptise
  7. rebaptised
  8. rebaptiser
  9. rebaptisers
  10. rebaptises
  11. rebaptising

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Adapted from Wiktionary: rebaptise (page history and authors); rebaptize (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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