Meaning

(transitive) To strongly criticise or denounce; to excoriate..

Definitions by Sense

1. (transitive) To strongly criticise or denounce; to excoriate.
2. (transitive) To judicially pronounce (someone) guilty.
3. (transitive) To judicially announce a verdict upon a finding of guilt; To sentence
4. (transitive) To confer eternal divine punishment upon.
5. (transitive, figuratively) To destine to experience bad circumstances; to doom.
6. (transitive) To declare something to be unfit for use, or further use.
7. (transitive) To determine and declare (property) to be assigned to public use. See eminent domain.
8. (transitive, law) To declare (a vessel) to be forfeited to the government or to be a prize.

Example Sentences

The president condemned the terrorists.

Ignorant and ſuperſtitious wretches meaſure the actions of letterd and philoſophical men by the tattle of their nurſes or illiterate parents and companions, or by the faſhion of the country : and people of differing religions judge and condemn each other by their own tenents ; when both of them cannot be in the right, and it is well if either of them are.

The judge condemned him to death.

She was condemned to life in prison.

Too many people are condemned to a life of poverty.

There was a massive slaughter of W.R. steam power at the conclusion of the summer timetable. In all, 169 locomotives were condemned.

Word Forms

• condemns
• condemning
• condemned

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When Should You Use Condemn?

Use condemn when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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