condemn
IPA: kʌndˈɛm
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.
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Examples of "condemn" in Sentences
- We condemn her action.
- Family condemns graceless biopic.
- He subscribed to the condemnation.
- The verse is a condemnation of the Iraq War.
- One is supporting and the other is condemning.
- In Estonia the reaction was clearly condemning.
- Doldrums, this is not condemning the destructive act.
- It is an exercise of the power of requisition or condemnation.
- Condemning the prosecution of the labor activists, it noted that.
- A condemnation of the degree of force is not a condemnation of the act itself.