Dictionary Entry
condemn
condemn is a 7-letter English word with 12 senses as transitive verb and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To pronounce to be wrong; to disapprove of; to censure. Face value is 12 in Scrabble and 16 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
7 letters · Scrabble 12 · Words With Friends 16 · 12 senses
Definitions
- 1transitive verb
To pronounce to be wrong; to disapprove of; to censure.
- 2transitive verb
To declare the guilt of; to make manifest the faults or unworthiness of; to convict of guilt.
- 3transitive verb
To pronounce a judicial sentence against; to sentence to punishment, suffering, or loss; to doom; -- with to before the penalty.
- 4transitive verb
To amerce or fine; -- with in before the penalty.
- 5transitive verb
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.
- 6transitive verb
To doom to be taken for public use, under the right of eminent domain.
- 7verb
declare or judge unfit for use or habitation
"The building was condemned by the inspector"
- 8verb
express strong disapproval of
"We condemn the racism in South Africa"
"These ideas were reprobated"
- 9verb
pronounce a sentence on (somebody) in a court of law
"He was condemned to ten years in prison"
- 10verb
demonstrate the guilt of (someone)
"Her strange behavior condemned her"
- 11verb
appropriate (property) for public use
"the county condemned the land to build a highway"
- 12verb
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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