Baptize and Immerse

verb

• Administer baptism to.
  • usage: "The parents had the child baptized"
  • synonyms: baptise, christen

• (v.t.) To christen ( because a name is given to infants at their baptism); to give a name to; to name.
• (v.t.) To administer the sacrament of baptism to.
• (v.t.) To sanctify; to consecrate.

verb

• Thrust or throw into.
  • usage: "Immerse yourself in hot water"
  • synonyms: plunge
• Devote (oneself) fully to.
  • usage: "He immersed himself into his studies"
  • synonyms: steep, engulf, plunge, engross, absorb, soak up
• Enclose or envelop completely, as if by swallowing.
  • usage: "The huge waves swallowed the small boat and it sank shortly thereafter"
  • synonyms: swallow, swallow up, bury, eat up
• Cause to be immersed.
  • usage: "The professor plunged his students into the study of the Italian text"
  • synonyms: plunge

• (v.t.) To baptize by immersion.
• (v.t.) To plunge into anything that surrounds or covers, especially into a fluid; to dip; to sink; to bury; to immerge.
• (a.) Immersed; buried; hid; sunk.
• (v.t.) To engage deeply; to engross the attention of; to involve; to overhelm.