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WIKTIONARY
condemn
Verb
  • 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
  • To declare (a vessel) to be forfeited to the government, to be a prize, or to be unfit for service. transitive, law
BABYLON ENGLISH
condemn v.
denounce; convict, declare guilty
HENGLISH - ADVANCED VERSION
condemn
condemn
\con*demn"\ (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. condemned (?); p. pr. & vb. n. condemning (? or &?;).] [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. wilt thou condemn him that is most just? v. 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. 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. to each his sufferings; all are men, condemned alike to groan. and they shall condemn him to death. xx. 18. the thief condemned, in law already dead. no flocks that range the valley free, to slaughter i condemn.
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) to doom to be taken for public use, under the right of eminent domain.
WORDNET 2.0
condemn
Verb
1. express strong disapproval of; "We condemn the racism in South Africa"; "These ideas were reprobated"
(synonym) reprobate, decry, objurgate, excoriate
(hypernym) denounce
(derivation) condemnation
2. declare or judge unfit; "The building was condemned by the inspector"
(hypernym) declare
(hyponym) boo, hiss
(entail) judge
(derivation) condemnation
3. compel or force into a particular state or activity; "His devotion to his sick wife condemned him to a lonely existence"
(hypernym) compel, oblige, obligate
4. demonstrate the guilt of (someone); "Her strange behavior condemned her"
(hypernym) attest, certify, manifest, demonstrate, evidence
(hyponym) attaint
(derivation) condemnation
5. pronounce a sentence on (somebody) in a court of law; "He was condemned to ten years in prison"
(synonym) sentence, doom
(hypernym) declare
(hyponym) foredoom
(entail) convict
(derivation) condemnation
(classification) law, jurisprudence
ENGLISH WIKIPEDIA - THE FREE ENCYCLOPEDIA
Condemnation
Condemnation or condemned may refer to:
Damnation, the antithesis of salvationThe Condemnations of 1210–1277, a series of condemnations or restrictions on certain medieval teachings at the University of Parisin property law, the process by which a public entity exercises its powers of eminent domainCondemned (film), a 1929 film that earned Ronald Colman an Academy Award nominationThe Condemned, a 2007 American Action fiction by film, a psychological horror video game and its sequel Condemned 2: Bloodshot"Condemned" (Stargate Atlantis), an episode of the television series Stargate Atlantis"Condemnation" (song), a 1993 song by Depeche ModeCondemnation (novel), a 2003 fantasy novel by Richard BakerCondemned (band), a death metal band from Belfast, Northern IrelandA song from Penetrations from the Lost World (reissue), by Dimension ZeroA song from A Sense of Purpose by In FlamesA song from The Powerless Rise by As I Lay DyingThe act of sentencing a person to capital punishment
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