Condemn vs. Denounce — What's the Difference?

Express complete disapproval of; censure

To condemn openly as being wrong or reprehensible.

Sentence (someone) to a particular punishment, especially death

To inform against (someone); accuse publicly.

To express strong disapproval of

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

To pronounce judgment against; sentence

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

To judge or declare to be unfit for use or consumption, usually by official order

(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 force (someone) to experience, endure, or do something

(transitive) To make a formal or public accusation against; to inform against; to accuse.

To lend credence to or provide evidence for an adverse judgment against

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

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

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

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

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

(transitive) To judicially pronounce (someone) guilty.

To make known in a solemn or official manner; to declare; to proclaim (especially an evil).

(transitive) To judicially announce a verdict upon a finding of guilt; To sentence

To proclaim in a threatening manner; to threaten by some outward sign or expression.

(transitive) To confer eternal divine punishment upon.

To point out as deserving of reprehension or punishment, etc.; to accuse in a threatening manner; to invoke censure upon; to stigmatize.

(transitive) To adjudge (a building) as being unfit for habitation.

Speak out against;

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

To accuse or condemn or openly or formally or brand as disgraceful;

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

Announce the termination of, as of treaties

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

Give away information about somebody;

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

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

To pronounce to be wrong; to disapprove of; to censure.

To declare the guilt of; to make manifest the faults or unworthiness of; to convict of guilt.

To pronounce a judicial sentence against; to sentence to punishment, suffering, or loss; to doom; - with to before the penalty.

To amerce or fine; - with in before the penalty.

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.

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

Express strong disapproval of;

Declare or judge unfit;

Compel or force into a particular state or activity;

Demonstrate the guilt of (someone);

Pronounce a sentence on (somebody) in a court of law;