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condemn
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)
- (transitive) To strongly criticise or denounce; to excoriate the perpetrators of.
- The president condemned the terrorists.
- (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.
- 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.
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
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decried
English
Verb
decried
- simple past tense and past participle of decry
Anagrams
- cidered, decider
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