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CONDEMN
condemn
(verb) declare or judge unfit for use or habitation; “The building was condemned by the inspector”
condemn, reprobate, decry, objurgate, excoriate
(verb) express strong disapproval of; “We condemn the racism in South Africa”; “These ideas were reprobated”
sentence, condemn, doom
(verb) pronounce a sentence on (somebody) in a court of law; “He was condemned to ten years in prison”
condemn
(verb) demonstrate the guilt of (someone); “Her strange behavior condemned her”
condemn
(verb) appropriate (property) for public use; “the county condemned the land to build a highway”
condemn
(verb) compel or force into a particular state or activity; “His devotion to his sick wife condemned him to a lonely existence”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Verb
condemn (third-person singular simple present condemns, present participle condemning, simple past and past participle condemned)
(transitive) To strongly criticise or denounce; to excoriate the perpetrators of.
(transitive) To judicially pronounce (someone) guilty.
(transitive) To confer eternal divine punishment upon.
(transitive) To adjudge (a building) as being unfit for habitation.
(transitive) To adjudge (building or construction work) as of unsatisfactory quality, requiring the work to be redone.
(transitive) To adjudge (food or drink) as being unfit for human consumption.
(transitive) To determine and declare (property) to be assigned to public use. See eminent domain.
(transitive, legal) To declare (a vessel) to be forfeited to the government, to be a prize, or to be unfit for service.
Synonyms
• damn
• (to pronounce guilty): convict
Antonyms
• save
• (to pronounce guilty): acquit
Source: Wiktionary
Con*demn", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Condemned; p. pr. & vb. n. Condemning ( or ]. Etym: [L. condemnare; con- + damnare to condemn: cf. F. condamner. See Damn.]
1. To pronounce to be wrong; to disapprove of; to censure. Condemn the fault, and not the actor of it! Why, every fault's condemned ere it be done. Shak. Wilt thou condemn him that is most just Job xxxiv. 17.
2. To declare the guilt of; to make manifest the faults or unworthiness of; to convict of guilt. The queen of the south shall rise up in the judgment with this generation, and shall condemn it. Matt. xii. 42.
3. To pronounce a judicial sentence against; to sentence to punishment, suffering, or loss; to doom; -- with to before the penalty. Driven out from bliss, condemned In this abhorred deep to utter woe. Milton. To each his sufferings; all are men, Condemned alike to groan. Gray. And they shall condemn him to death. Matt. xx. 18. The thief condemned, in law already dead. Pope. No flocks that range the valley free, To slaughter I condemn. Goldsmith.
4. To amerce or fine; -- with in before the penalty. The king of Egypt . . . condemned the land in a hundred talents of silver. 2 Cron. xxxvi. 3.
5. To adjudge or pronounce to be unfit for use or service; to adjudge or pronounce to be forfeited; as, the ship and her cargo were condemned.
6. (Law)
Definition: To doom to be taken for public use, under the right of eminent domain.
Syn.
– To blame; censure; reprove; reproach; upbraid; reprobate; convict; doom; sentence; adjudge.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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