blaspheme Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. verb utter obscenities or profanities
    imprecate; cuss; curse; swear.
    • The drunken men were cursing loudly in the street
  2. verb speak of in an irreverent or impious manner
    • blaspheme God

WordNet

Blas*pheme" transitive verb
Etymology
OE. blasfemn, L. blasphemare, fr. Gr. : cf. F. blasphémer. See Blame, v.
Wordforms
imperfect & past participle Blasphemed present participle & verbal noun Blaspheming
Definitions
  1. To speak of, or address, with impious irreverence; to revile impiously (anything sacred); as, to blaspheme the Holy Spirit.
    So Dagon shall be magnified, and God, Besides whom is no god, compared with idols, Disglorified, blasphemed, and had in scorn. Milton.
    How long, O Lord, holy and true, dost thou not judge and avenge thyself on all those who thus continually blaspheme thy great and all-glorious name? Dr. W. Beveridge.
  2. Figuratively, of persons and things not religiously sacred, but held in high honor: To calumniate; to revile; to abuse.
    You do blaspheme the good in mocking me. Shak.
    Those who from our labors heap their board, Blaspheme their feeder and forget their lord. Pope.
Blas*pheme" intransitive verb
Definitions
  1. To utter blasphemy.
    He that shall blaspheme against the Holy Ghost hath never forgiveness. Mark iii. 29.

Webster 1913