Condemn
[kən'dem] or [kən'dɛm]
Definition
(verb.) declare or judge unfit for use or habitation; 'The building was condemned by the inspector'.
(verb.) express strong disapproval of; 'We condemn the racism in South Africa'; 'These ideas were reprobated'.
(verb.) demonstrate the guilt of (someone); 'Her strange behavior condemned her'.
(verb.) appropriate (property) for public use; 'the county condemned the land to build a highway'.
(verb.) compel or force into a particular state or activity; 'His devotion to his sick wife condemned him to a lonely existence'.
Edited by Griffith--From WordNet
Definition
(v. t.) To pronounce to be wrong; to disapprove of; to censure.
(v. t.) To declare the guilt of; to make manifest the faults or unworthiness of; to convict of guilt.
(v. t.) To pronounce a judicial sentence against; to sentence to punishment, suffering, or loss; to doom; -- with to before the penalty.
(v. t.) To amerce or fine; -- with in before the penalty.
(v. t.) To adjudge or pronounce to be unfit for use or service; to adjudge or pronounce to be forfeited; as, the ship and her cargo were condemned.
(v. t.) To doom to be taken for public use, under the right of eminent domain.
Checker: Salvatore
Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. [1]. Sentence, doom.[2]. Censure, blame, disapprove, reprove, reprobate, upbraid, pass censure on.[3]. Adjudge (a ship) to be unseaworthy.[4]. Confiscate, declare to be forfeited.
Checker: Sumner
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Blame, convict, reprove, cast, censure, denounce, doom, sentence
ANT:Absolve, acquit, exonerate, pardon, justify, approve
Typed by Floyd
Definition
v.t. to pronounce guilty: to censure or blame: to sentence to punishment: to give up to some fate: to pronounce unfit for use.—adj. Condem′nable blamable.—n. Condemnā′tion state of being condemned: blame: cause of being condemned.—adj. Condem′natory expressing or implying condemnation.—p.adj. Condemned′ pronounced to be wrong guilty or useless: belonging or relating to one who is sentenced to punishment e.g. 'condemned cell:' declared dangerous and to be removed as a house bridge &c.
Editor: Wilma
Examples
- I have heard reputable physicians condemn a certain method of psychotherapy because it was immoral. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- It is surely better to pardon too much, than to condemn too much. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Then you condemn me to live wretched and to die accursed? Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- Does some dogma of Calvin or Luther condemn it? Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- He may condemn it, but not with that word. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- It appears they are uneasy at the state of matters here in the north; they especially condemn the supineness and pusillanimity of the mill-owners. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Nor is every sentiment of pleasure or pain, which arises from characters and actions, of that peculiar kind, which makes us praise or condemn. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- But he was now married; and she condemned her heart for the lurking flattery, which so much heightened the pain of the intelligence. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
- She bethought herself now of the condemned criminal. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Why was I always suffering, always browbeaten, always accused, for ever condemned? Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- Again, the dreaded Sunday comes round, and I file into the old pew first, like a guarded captive brought to a condemned service. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- It is of some comfort to know that this brutal use of the rope is being replaced by more humane methods of ending the lives of condemned criminals. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- The ballots had been thrown; they were all black, and Justine was condemned. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- All the fifteen were condemned, and the trials of the whole occupied an hour and a half. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- This opinion I can scarce forbear retracting, and condemning from my present feeling and experience. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- Nor I, said Mr. Live-loose; for he would be always condemning my way. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- And I've heard say Mr. Bulstrode condemns Mrs. Vincy beyond anything for her flightiness, and spoiling her children so. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Before a man condemns Nero as a different species of being from himself, he should examine his own secret thoughts very carefully. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Is he so very much better in this way than the people whom he condemns in their way? Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- While there is still much admiration and envy of those who can pursue lives of idle conspicuous display, better moral sentiment condemns such lives. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- He condemns a whole street at a time, assesses the damages, pays them, and rebuilds superbly. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
Typist: Serena