verb

• (transitive) To strongly criticise or denounce; to excoriate the perpetrators of.
• (transitive) To judicially pronounce (someone) guilty.
• (transitive) To judicially announce a verdict upon a finding of guilt; To sentence
• (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.
• To declare something to be unfit for use, or further use.
• (transitive) To determine and declare (property) to be assigned to public use. See eminent domain.
• (transitive, law) To declare (a vessel) to be forfeited to the government, to be a prize, or to be unfit for service.