Condemn

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • v. To express strong disapproval of: condemned the needless waste of food.
  • v. To pronounce judgment against; sentence: condemned the felons to prison.
  • v. To judge or declare to be unfit for use or consumption, usually by official order: condemn an old building.
  • v. To lend credence to or provide evidence for an adverse judgment against: were condemned by their actions.
  • v. Law To appropriate (property) for public use.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • v. To confer some sort of eternal divine punishment upon.
  • v. To adjudge (a building) as being unfit for habitation.
  • v. To scold sharply; to excoriate the perpetrators of.
  • v. To judicially pronounce (someone) guilty.
  • v. To determine and declare (property) to be assigned to public use. See eminent domain
  • v. To adjudge (food or drink) as being unfit for human consumption.
  • v. To declare (a vessel) to be forfeited to the government, to be a prize, or to be unfit for service.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • v. To pronounce to be wrong; to disapprove of; to censure.
  • v. To declare the guilt of; to make manifest the faults or unworthiness of; to convict of guilt.
  • v. To pronounce a judicial sentence against; to sentence to punishment, suffering, or loss; to doom; -- with to before the penalty.
  • v. To amerce or fine; -- with in before the penalty.
  • v. To adjudge or pronounce to be unfit for use or service; to adjudge or pronounce to be forfeited.
  • v. To doom to be taken for public use, under the right of eminent domain.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To pronounce judgment against; express or feel strong disapprobation of; hold to be positively wrong, reprehensible, intolerable, etc.: used either of persons or things, with as, for, or on account of before an expressed ground of condemnation: as, to condemn a person for bad conduct, or as (sometimes colloquially for) a blackguard; to condemn an action for or on account of its injurious tendency.
  • To serve for the condemnation of; afford occasion for condemning: as, his very looks condemn him.
  • To convict: with of.
  • To pronounce to be guilty, as opposed to acquit or absolve; more specifically, to sentence to punishment; utter sentence against judicially; doom: the penalty, when expressed, being in the infinitive, or a noun or noun-phrase preceded by to: as, to condemn a person to pay a fine, or to imprisonment.
  • [Formerly the expression to condemn in a fine was used.
  • To demonstrate the guilt of, by comparison and contrast.
  • To judge or pronounce to be unfit for use or service: as, the ship was condemned as unseaworthy; the provisions were condemned by the commissary.
  • To judge or pronounce to be forfeited; specifically, to declare (a vessel) a lawful prize: as, the ship and her cargo were condemned.
  • To pronounce, by judicial authority, subject to use for a public purpose. See condemnation, 1 .
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • v. declare or judge unfit for use or habitation
  • v. appropriate (property) for public use
  • v. demonstrate the guilt of (someone)
  • v. pronounce a sentence on (somebody) in a court of law
  • v. compel or force into a particular state or activity
  • v. express strong disapproval of
  • Antonym
    save   
    Verb Form
    condemned    condemning    condemns   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    sequester    impound    seize    attach    confiscate    obligate    compel    oblige    denounce   
    Cross Reference
    convict    confiscate    appropriate   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    reproach    adjudge    convict    upbraid    censure    sentence    reprobate    reprove    doom    blame   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Am    Clem    Em    Fm    Gem    Jem    M    M.    Pm    Rem   
    Same Context
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