Condemnverb
(transitive) To strongly criticise or denounce; to excoriate the perpetrators of.
‘The president condemned the terrorists.’;
Reproveverb
(intransitive) to express disapproval.
Condemnverb
(transitive) To judicially pronounce (someone) guilty.
Reproveverb
(transitive) to criticise, rebuke or reprimand (someone), usually in a gentle and kind tone.
Condemnverb
(transitive) To confer eternal divine punishment upon.
Reproveverb
(transitive) to deny or reject (a feeling, behaviour, action etc.).
Condemnverb
(transitive) To adjudge (a building) as being unfit for habitation.
‘The house was condemned after it was badly damaged by fire.’;
Reproveverb
(transitive) To prove again.
Condemnverb
(transitive) To adjudge (building or construction work) as of unsatisfactory quality, requiring the work to be redone.
Reproveverb
To convince.
‘When he is come, he will reprove the world of sin, and of righteousness, and of judgment.’;
Condemnverb
(transitive) To adjudge (food or drink) as being unfit for human consumption.
Reproveverb
To disprove; to refute.
‘Reprove my allegation, if you can.’;
Condemnverb
(transitive) To determine and declare (property) to be assigned to public use. See eminent domain.
Reproveverb
To chide to the face as blameworthy; to accuse as guilty; to censure.
‘What if thy son’; ‘Prove disobedient, and, reproved, retort,"Wherefore didst thou beget me?"’;
Condemnverb
To declare (a vessel) to be forfeited to the government, to be a prize, or to be unfit for service.
Reproveverb
To express disapprobation of; as, to reprove faults.
‘He neither reproved the ordinance of John, neither plainly condemned the fastings of the other men.’;
Condemnverb
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?’;
Reproveverb
take to task;
‘He admonished the child for his bad behavior’;
Condemnverb
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.’;
Condemnverb
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.’;
Condemnverb
To amerce or fine; - with in before the penalty.
‘The king of Egypt . . . condemned the land in a hundred talents of silver.’;
Condemnverb
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.
Condemnverb
To doom to be taken for public use, under the right of eminent domain.
Condemnverb
express strong disapproval of;
‘We condemn the racism in South Africa’; ‘These ideas were reprobated’;
Condemnverb
declare or judge unfit;
‘The building was condemned by the inspector’;
Condemnverb
compel or force into a particular state or activity;
‘His devotion to his sick wife condemned him to a lonely existence’;
Condemnverb
demonstrate the guilt of (someone);
‘Her strange behavior condemned her’;
Condemnverb
pronounce a sentence on (somebody) in a court of law;
‘He was condemned to ten years in prison’;
Condemnverb
express complete disapproval of; censure
‘the plan was condemned by campaigners’; ‘most leaders roundly condemned the attack’;
Condemnverb
sentence (someone) to a particular punishment, especially death
‘the rebels had been condemned to death’;
Condemnverb
(of circumstances) force (someone) to endure or accept something unpleasant
‘the physical ailments that condemned him to a lonely childhood’;
Condemnverb
prove or show to be guilty or unsatisfactory
‘she could see in his eyes that her stumble had condemned her’;
Condemnverb
officially declare (something) to be unfit for use
‘the pool has been condemned as a health hazard’;
