different between condemn vs banish

English

Etymology

From Middle English condempnen, from Old French condamner, from Latin condemn?re (“to sentence, condemn, blame”), from com- + damn?re (“to harm, condemn, damn”), from damnum (“damage, injury, loss”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k?n?d?m/
• Rhymes: -?m

Verb

condemn (third-person singular simple present condemns, present participle condemning, simple past and past participle condemned)

1. (transitive) To strongly criticise or denounce; to excoriate the perpetrators of.

   The president condemned the terrorists.
2. (transitive) To judicially pronounce (someone) guilty.
3. (transitive) To confer eternal divine punishment upon.
4. (transitive) To adjudge (a building) as being unfit for habitation.

5. (transitive) To adjudge (building or construction work) as of unsatisfactory quality, requiring the work to be redone.
6. (transitive) To adjudge (food or drink) as being unfit for human consumption.
7. To declare something to be unfit for use, or further use.
8. (transitive) To determine and declare (property) to be assigned to public use. See eminent domain.
9. (transitive, law) To declare (a vessel) to be forfeited to the government, to be a prize, or to be unfit for service.

Synonyms

• damn
• (to pronounce guilty): convict

Antonyms

• save
• (to pronounce guilty): acquit

Related terms

• condemnable
• condemnation

Translations

Further reading

• condemn in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• condemn in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• condemn at OneLook Dictionary Search

English

Etymology

From Middle English banysshen, from Old French banir (“to proclaim, ban, banish”) and Old English bannan, from Proto-Germanic *bannan? (“curse, forbid”). Compare to French bannir.

Pronunciation

• enPR: b?n'?sh, IPA^(key): /?bæn??/
• Rhymes: -æn??

Verb

banish (third-person singular simple present banishes, present participle banishing, simple past and past participle banished)

1. (heading) To send someone away and forbid that person from returning.
   1. (with simple direct object)

      If you don't stop talking blasphemies, I will banish you.

   2. (with from)

      He was banished from the kingdom.
   3. (dated, with out of)
   4. (archaic, with two simple objects (person and place))
      • , II.10:

        he never referreth any one unto vertue, religion, or conscience: as if they were all extinguished and banished the world […].

      • 1796, Matthew Lewis, The Monk, Folio Society, 1985, p.190:

        Then yours she will never be! You are banished her presence; her mother has opened her eyes to your designs, and she is now upon her guard against them.

2. To expel, especially from the mind.

Related terms

• banishment

Translations

Further reading

• banish in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• banish in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• banish at OneLook Dictionary Search

Anagrams

• Bhasin, ash-bin, ashbin, bash in, bashin', nisbah