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.
Definitions
- transitive verb. To pronounce to be wrong; to disapprove of; to censure.
- transitive verb. To declare the guilt of; to make manifest the faults or unworthiness of; to convict of guilt.
- transitive verb. To pronounce a judicial sentence against; to sentence to punishment, suffering, or loss; to doom; -- with to before the penalty.
- transitive verb. To amerce or fine; -- with in before the penalty.
- transitive 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.
- transitive verb. To doom to be taken for public use, under the right of eminent domain.
- verb. declare or judge unfit for use or habitation
"The building was condemned by the inspector"
- verb. express strong disapproval of
"We condemn the racism in South Africa"
"These ideas were reprobated"
- verb. pronounce a sentence on (somebody) in a court of law
"He was condemned to ten years in prison"
- verb. demonstrate the guilt of (someone)
"Her strange behavior condemned her"
- verb. appropriate (property) for public use
"the county condemned the land to build a highway"
- verb. compel or force into a particular state or activity
"His devotion to his sick wife condemned him to a lonely existence"
Synonyms
decry, excoriate, objurgate, reprobate, doom, sentence
Common word forms
condemns, condemned, condemner, condemning, condemnable
Words from these letters
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