condem

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 president condemned the terrorists.

   Synonyms:

   admonish, objurgate, upbraid, animadvert, bash, bawl out, tilt, cannonade, slash, lash

2. (transitive) To judicially pronounce (someone) guilty.

   Synonyms:

   convict, damn, sentence, adjudge, deem, doom, judge

   Antonyms:

   acquit, clear, vindicate, acquittance, assoil, assoilzie, absolve, disculp, disculpate, exculpate

3. (transitive) To judicially announce a verdict upon a finding of guilt; To sentence
   • The judge condemned him to death.
4. (transitive) To confer eternal divine punishment upon.

   Synonyms:

   damn

   Antonyms:

   save

5. (figuratively, transitive) To destine to experience bad circumstances; to doom.
   • Too many people are condemned to a life of poverty.

   Synonyms:

   curse, fate, foreordain, preordain

6. (transitive) To declare something to be unfit for use, or further use.
   • There was a massive slaughter of W.R. steam power at the conclusion of the summer timetable. In all, 169 locomotives were condemned.1962 December, “Motive Power Miscellany: Western Region”, in Modern Railways, page 425

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