transitive verb. To express strong disapproval of: synonym: criticize.

transitive verb. To pronounce judgment against; sentence.

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

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

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

transitive verb. To appropriate (property) for public use.

To pronounce judgment against; express or feel strong disapprobation of; hold to be positively wrong, reprehensible, intolerable, etc.: used either of persons or things, with as, for, or on account of before an expressed ground of condemnation: as, to condemn a person for bad conduct, or as (sometimes colloquially for) a blackguard; to condemn an action for or on account of its injurious tendency.

To serve for the condemnation of; afford occasion for condemning: as, his very looks condemn him.

To convict: with of.

To pronounce to be guilty, as opposed to acquit or absolve; more specifically, to sentence to punishment; utter sentence against judicially; doom: the penalty, when expressed, being in the infinitive, or a noun or noun-phrase preceded by to: as, to condemn a person to pay a fine, or to imprisonment.

[Formerly the expression to condemn in a fine was used.

To demonstrate the guilt of, by comparison and contrast.

To judge or pronounce to be unfit for use or service: as, the ship was condemned as unseaworthy; the provisions were condemned by the commissary.

To judge or pronounce to be forfeited; specifically, to declare (a vessel) a lawful prize: as, the ship and her cargo were condemned.

To pronounce, by judicial authority, subject to use for a public purpose. See condemnation, 1 .

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.

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

verb. To confer some sort of eternal divine punishment upon.

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

verb. To scold sharply; to excoriate the perpetrators of.

verb. To judicially pronounce (someone) guilty.

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

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

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

verb. declare or judge unfit for use or habitation

verb. appropriate (property) for public use

verb. demonstrate the guilt of (someone)

verb. pronounce a sentence on (somebody) in a court of law

verb. compel or force into a particular state or activity

verb. express strong disapproval of

"Several said the government should have used the word "condemn" rather than "deplore.""

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