verb

1. To commit blasphemy; to speak against God or religious doctrine.

2. To speak of, or address, with impious irreverence; to revile impiously (anything sacred).

3. To calumniate; to revile; to abuse.

noun

1. An act of irreverence or contempt toward a god or toward something considered sacred; an impious act, utterance, view, etc.

   “That imam said that drawing the prophet Muhammad is a form of blasphemy.”

2. (by extension) An act of irreverence towards anything considered inviolable; the act of disregarding a convention.

Synonyms: cursing, cussing, execration, imprecation, profanity, swearing, desecration, profanation