CONDEMNED

Adjective

condemned (not comparable)

Having received a curse to be doomed to suffer eternally.

Having been sharply scolded.

Adjudged or sentenced to punishment, destruction, or confiscation.

(of a building) Officially marked uninhabitable.

Synonyms

• (having received a curse): damned, doomed

Antonyms

• (having received a curse): blessed, saved

Noun

condemned (plural condemned)

A person sentenced to death.

Verb

condemned

simple past tense and past participle of condemn

Source: Wiktionary

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Con*demned", a.

1. Pronounced to be wrong, guilty, worthless, or forfeited; adjudged or sentenced to punishment, destruction, or confiscation.

2. Used for condemned persons. Richard Savage . . . had lain with fifty pounds weight of irons on his legs in the condemned ward of Newgate. Macaulay.

CONDEMN

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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