MEANING
To speak or act in a way regarded as contemptuous of a deity, religion, or sacred thing.
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Words that belong together
- blaspheme against a deity
- accused of blaspheming
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The character was accused of blaspheming against the household’s sacred rule.
She asked whose authority decided that the words blasphemed.
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Word forms
- Base
- blaspheme
- Past tense
- blasphemed
- Past participle
- blasphemed
- Present participle
- blaspheming
Full tense & aspect guide
- Present
- blaspheme
- Present continuous
- am/is/are blaspheming
- Present perfect
- have/has blasphemed
- Present perfect continuous
- have/has been blaspheming
- Past
- blasphemed
- Past continuous
- was/were blaspheming
- Past perfect
- had blasphemed
- Past perfect continuous
- had been blaspheming
- Future
- will blaspheme
- Future continuous
- will be blaspheming
- Future perfect
- will have blasphemed
- Future perfect continuous
- will have been blaspheming
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Usage notes
Primary category: horror. Forms: blaspheme; blasphemes; blasphemed; blasphemed; blaspheming Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Third-person singular: blasphemes.
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