Condemn vs. Prohibit — What's the Difference?

Express complete disapproval of; censure

To forbid by authority

Sentence (someone) to a particular punishment, especially death

To prevent; preclude

To express strong disapproval of

(transitive) To forbid, disallow, or proscribe officially; to make illegal or illicit.

To pronounce judgment against; sentence

To forbid by authority; to interdict; as, God prohibited Adam from eating of the fruit of a certain tree; we prohibit a person from doing a thing, and also the doing of the thing; as, the law prohibits men from stealing, or it prohibits stealing.

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

To hinder; to debar; to prevent; to preclude.

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

Command against;

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

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

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

(transitive) To judicially pronounce (someone) guilty.

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

(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.

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;