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Condemn

Express complete disapproval of; censure
The plan was condemned by campaigners
Most leaders roundly condemned the attack
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Denounce

To condemn openly as being wrong or reprehensible.
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Condemn

Sentence (someone) to a particular punishment, especially death
The rebels had been condemned to death
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Denounce

To inform against (someone); accuse publicly.
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Condemn

To express strong disapproval of
Condemned the needless waste of food.
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Denounce

To give formal announcement of the ending of (a treaty).
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Condemn

To pronounce judgment against; sentence
Condemned the felons to prison.
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Denounce

To make known in a formal manner; to proclaim; to announce; to declare.
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Condemn

To judge or declare to be unfit for use or consumption, usually by official order
Condemn an old building.
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Denounce

(transitive) To criticize or speak out against (someone or something); to point out as deserving of reprehension, etc.; to openly accuse or condemn in a threatening manner; to invoke censure upon; to stigmatize; to blame.
To denounce someone as a swindler, or as a coward
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Condemn

To force (someone) to experience, endure, or do something
"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it" (George Santayana).
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Denounce

(transitive) To make a formal or public accusation against; to inform against; to accuse.
To denounce a confederate in crime
To denounce someone to the authorities
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Condemn

To lend credence to or provide evidence for an adverse judgment against
Were condemned by their actions.
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Denounce

To proclaim in a threatening manner; to threaten by some outward sign or expression; make a menace of.
To denounce war; to denounce punishment
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Condemn

(Law) To appropriate (property) for public use.
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Denounce

(transitive) To announce the termination of; especially a treaty or armistice.
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Condemn

(transitive) To strongly criticise or denounce; to excoriate the perpetrators of.
The president condemned the terrorists.
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Denounce

To claim the right of working a mine that is abandoned or insufficiently worked.
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Condemn

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

To make known in a solemn or official manner; to declare; to proclaim (especially an evil).
Denouncing wrath to come.
I denounce unto you this day, that ye shall surely perish.
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Condemn

(transitive) To judicially announce a verdict upon a finding of guilt; To sentence
The judge condemned him to death.
She was condemned to life in prison.
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Denounce

To proclaim in a threatening manner; to threaten by some outward sign or expression.
His look denounced desperate.
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Condemn

(transitive) To confer eternal divine punishment upon.
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Denounce

To point out as deserving of reprehension or punishment, etc.; to accuse in a threatening manner; to invoke censure upon; to stigmatize.
Denounced for a heretic.
To denounce the immoralities of Julius Cæsar.
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Condemn

(transitive) To adjudge (a building) as being unfit for habitation.
The house was condemned after it was badly damaged by fire.
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Denounce

Speak out against;
He denounced the Nazis
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Condemn

(transitive) To adjudge (building or construction work) as of unsatisfactory quality, requiring the work to be redone.
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Denounce

To accuse or condemn or openly or formally or brand as disgraceful;
He denounced the government action
She was stigmatized by society because she had a child out of wedlock
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Condemn

(transitive) To adjudge (food or drink) as being unfit for human consumption.
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Denounce

Announce the termination of, as of treaties
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Condemn

To declare something to be unfit for use, or further use.
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Denounce

Give away information about somebody;
He told on his classmate who had cheated on the exam
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Condemn

(transitive) To determine and declare (property) to be assigned to public use. See eminent domain.
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Condemn

To declare (a vessel) to be forfeited to the government, to be a prize, or to be unfit for service.
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Condemn

To pronounce to be wrong; to disapprove of; to censure.
Condemn the fault, and not the actor of it!Why, every fault's condemned ere it be done.
Wilt thou condemn him that is most just?
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Condemn

To declare the guilt of; to make manifest the faults or unworthiness of; to convict of guilt.
The queen of the south shall rise up in the judgment with this generation, and shall condemn it.
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Condemn

To pronounce a judicial sentence against; to sentence to punishment, suffering, or loss; to doom; - with to before the penalty.
Driven out from bliss, condemnedIn this abhorred deep to utter woe.
To each his sufferings; all are men,Condemned alike to groan.
And they shall condemn him to death.
The thief condemned, in law already dead.
No flocks that range the valley free,To slaughter I condemn.
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Condemn

To amerce or fine; - with in before the penalty.
The king of Egypt . . . condemned the land in a hundred talents of silver.
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Condemn

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.
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Condemn

To doom to be taken for public use, under the right of eminent domain.
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Condemn

Express strong disapproval of;
We condemn the racism in South Africa
These ideas were reprobated
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Condemn

Declare or judge unfit;
The building was condemned by the inspector
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Condemn

Compel or force into a particular state or activity;
His devotion to his sick wife condemned him to a lonely existence
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Condemn

Demonstrate the guilt of (someone);
Her strange behavior condemned her
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Condemn

Pronounce a sentence on (somebody) in a court of law;
He was condemned to ten years in prison
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