Alternate (chiefly British) spelling of apostatise.

(Alternate spelling: apostatise)
To abandon one's beliefs or allegiances; SYN. apostatise, tergiversate.
Change one's religious allegiance; forsake one's principles.

1. To dip into a liquid; SYN. douse, duck.
2. To go down momentarily.
3. To lower briefly.
4. To sink; SYN. sink.
5. To slope downwards.
6. To stain an object by immersing it in a liquid.

1. To come off
2. To diminish in size or intensity; SYN. fall away.
3. When people or things drop to a lower level from a higher place, they fall off the place where they were.

To withdraw from an organization or communion; SYN. splinter, break away.