Condemn

Definition: Condemn

Condemn

Verb

1. Express strong disapproval of; "We condemn the racism in South Africa".

2. Declare or judge unfit; "The building was condemned by the inspector".

3. Compel or force into a particular state or activity; "His devotion to his sick wife condemned him to a lonely existence".

4. Demonstrate the guilt of (someone); "Her strange behavior condemned her".

5. Pronounce a sentence on, in a court of law; "He was condemned to ten years in prison".

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Date "condemn" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references)

Synonyms: Condemn

Condemnation

Verb: condemn, convict, cast, bring home to, find guilty, damn, doom, sign the death warrant, sentence, pass sentence on, attaint, confiscate, proscribe, sequestrate; nonsuit.

Disapprobation

Dispraise, discommend, disparage; deprecate, speak ill of, not speak well of; condemn; (find guilty).

Crosswords: Condemn

So as your father once condemned us, so now do we condemn his misbegotten brat! (Superman II; writing credit: Jerry Siegel; Joe Shuster)

I love you too much to condemn you. (Dracula; writing credit: James V. Hart)

You say you are a good man, but you condemn your wife to barrenness for the sake of an oath to painted savages. (The Mists of Avalon; writing credit: Marion Zimmer Bradley; Gavin Scott)

I condemn you, John Crichton, to live so that your thirst for unfulfilled revenge will consume you. (Farscape; writing credit: Olivier Cauvin)

I don't think it's quite fair to condemn a whole program because of a single slip-up. (Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb; writing credit: Peter George; Stanley Kubrick)

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Books

• Don't Fire at the Rainbow: Children Condemn Imperialism (reference)

• Nor the Years Condemn (reference)

• Power play : why we condemn the Bakun Hydroelectric Project (reference)

• Skinned Activists Condemn the Horrors of the Fur Trade (reference)

• The future of U.S. antiterrorism policy : hearings and markup of H. Res. 118, To Condemn the Release by the Government of Malta of Convicted Terrorist Mohammed Ali Rezaq, before the Subcommittee on International Security, International Organizations, and (reference)

  (more book examples)

Music

• Don't Condemn This Dying (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

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Argentina '78 : sede mundial de la tortura y la violacion de los derechos humanos : su repudio puede salvar una vida = world's site of torture and violation of human rights : to condemn it may save a life. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

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But that this was not by any paternal right, but only by the consent of his children, is evident from hence, that no body doubts, but if a stranger, whom chance or business had brought to his family, had there killed any of his children, or committed any other fact, he might condemn and put him to death, or other-wise have punished him, as well as any of his children; which it was impossible he should do by virtue of any paternal authority over one who was not his child, but by virtue of that executive power of the law of nature, which, as a man, he had a right to: and he alone could punish him in his family, where the respect of his children had laid by the exercise of such a power, to give way to the dignity and authority they were willing should remain in him, above the rest of his family. (Second Treatise of Government)

If, however, such a bill should be passed, and a person should be prosecuted under it; must the court condemn to death those victims whom the constitution endeavors to preserve? (reference)

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Do not condemn that man, at least.

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Business

A campaign to stress ethnic unity and to condemn "splitism" and religious extremism began in April. (references)

However, thousands of Germans have formed groups and marched to condemn violence or other anti- foreigner or extremist acts. (references)

The Government continued to condemn and to take steps to prevent and punish the abduction and sale of women for marriage or prostitution. (references)

Economic History

Germany

The vast majority of Germans condemn such violence. (references)

Morocco

Morocco was the first Arab state to condemn Iraq's invasion of Kuwait and sent troops to help defend Saudi Arabia. (references)

Human Rights

Tunisia

In February the Government reported that representatives from NGO's held a meeting in Tunis to condemn foreign influence in the country's internal affairs. (references)

Political Economy

Burma

While the resolutions do not specifically sanction Burma, they do condemn Burma for continuing human rights violations and provide a mandate for a special rapporteur to investigate and report on these violations. (references)

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Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expression using "condemn": condemn to death. Additional references.

Albanian

shpronësoj (dispossess, expropriate), shpall të papërdorshme, ndëshkoj (amerce, castigate, chastise, correct, discipline, dish it out, give in, penalize, punish), kundërshtoj (censure, challenge, combat, contest, contradict, controvert, counter, cross, demur, deprecate, discountenance, discourage, dispute, flout, fly in the face of, gainsay, impugn, kick, mind, object, oppose, oppugn, protest, react, rebel, rebuke, rebut, recalcitrate, refuse, resist, retort, set one's face against, stick to, stickle, Stonewall, take exception to), dënoj (be exiled, castigate, censure, criminate, damn, declaim, delate, denounce, deprecate, discipline, doom, penalize, proscribe, punish, rap, reprehend, sentence, trounce). (various references)

Arabic 

‏حكم على (arbitrate, damn, judge, sentence), ‏صادر (attach, commandeer, conscript, expropriate, impound, levy, possess, requisition, seize, sequester, sequestrate, take possession of), ‏أدان (convict, damn, debit, doom, find, rail), ‏شجب (condemnation, decry, denounce, denouncement, denunciation, excoriation, execrate, fulminate, rail, reprehend, stigmatize). (various references)

Bulgarian 

упреквам (animadvert, find fault, objurgate, reproach, taunt, twit, upbraid), конфискувам (arrest, confiscate, escheat, impound, seize, sequester, sequestrate), осъждам (adjudge, be naughty, blame, convict, damn, denounce, deplore, doom, rap, reprehend, sentence), бракувам (cull, dispense, reject, scrap), издавам (betray, bring out, delate, denounce, disclose, divulge, emit, enact, give, give away, hand down, issue, leak, loose, proclaim, produce, publish, put forth, put out, send forth, spill, stick out, throw out, utter). (various references)

Chinese 

谴责 (Castigate, Castigated, Castigating, Condemnation, Condemned, Condemning, Denounce, Denounced, Denouncing, reprimand, reprimanded, Reprimanding), 譴責 (criticize, denounce). (various references)

Czech

urèit k demolici, odsoudit (convict, criticize, denounce, judge, reprobate, sentence), obvinit (accuse, delate, impeach, incriminate, inculpate, indict, lay up blame, tax). (various references)

Danish

dømme (judge, sentence). (various references)

Dutch

afkeuren (declare unfit for use, disapprove, disapprove of, rebuke, refuse, reject, reproach, reprove, scold, scrap). (various references)

Esperanto

malaprobi (disapprove, disapprove of, rebuke), kondamni (sentence), deklari netaŭga (declare unfit for use, scrap). (various references)

Faeroese

døma (judge, sentence). (various references)

Farsi 

محکوم کردن (Adjudge, Convict, Sentence), محکوم شدن . (various references)

Finnish

tuomita (adjudge, award, judge, sentence). (various references)

French

condamner (convict). (various references)

Frisian

lekje (disapprove, disapprove of, rebuke), feroardielje (sentence), ôfkarre (disapprove, disapprove of, rebuke). (various references)

German

verurteilen (condemns, convict, damn, disapprove, doom, send down, sentence, to condemn), verdammen (damn, doom, sentence). (various references)

Greek 

καταδικάζω (convict, damn, doom, reprobate, sentence). (various references)

Hebrew 

לק� וס (fine, impose a penalty, mulct, punish, sentence), ל�"חרים (ban, boycott, excommunicate, taboo), ל�"רשיע (find guilty, incriminate), ל�"ון לכף חוב�" (accuse, blame), ל�'� ות (censure, damn, defame, denounce, disapprove, dispraise, impute, put to shame, score, thumbs down). (various references)

Hungarian

helytelenít (deprecate, disallow, disapprove, discountenance, disfavor, disfavour, to bar, to deplore, to deprecate, to disapprove, to disapprove of, to discourage, to frown, to rebuke), elítél (censure, disapprove, doom, judge, sentence, to censure, to condemn, to convict, to damn, to deprecate, to doom, to frown, to proscribe, to sentence). (various references)

Indonesian

mengutuk (curse, damn), menghukum (castigate, damn, punish, sentence), mengapkir (ban, prohibit, reject), mencela (blame, carp, decry, denounce, disapprove, disapprove of, knock, taunt), gusur (drag, flatten, haul). (various references)

Italian

condannare (convict, damn, doom, sentence), biasimare (blame, censure, disapprove, disapprove of, rebuke, reprobate, reprove, scorch). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

責める　 (to blame, to condemn, to criticize), 責める (to blame, to condemn, to criticize). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

せめる (to assault, to attack, to blame, to condemn, to criticize). (various references)

Korean 

비난하십시�". (various references)

Manx

jannoo beg jeh (belittle, debunk, depreciate, depreciation, discount, disparage, disparagement, flout), deyrey (condemnation, convict, conviction; more precious, damn, damnation, doom). (various references)

Norwegian

kondemnere, fordømme (denounce). (various references)

Papiamen

kondená (sentence), desaprobá (disapprove, disapprove of, rebuke). (various references)

Pig Latin

ondemncay

Portuguese

culpar (accuse, arraign, blame, incriminate, indict, pin on), confiscar (confiscate, convert, embargo, escheat, forfeit, impound, seize, sequester, sequestrate), condenar (adjudge, attaint, convict, cuss, damn, denounce, devote, doom, misdeem, reprobate, sentence), censurar (admonish, animadvert, berate, blame, carp, censor, censure, chide, damn, deprecate, expostulate, find fault with, gloss, impeach, inculpate, inveigh, jaw, land on, lecture, lesson, nibble, objurgate, quarrel, rebuke, red-pencil, reprehend, reproach, reprove, scold, sermonize, snub, twit, upbraid, vituperate), sentenciar (judge, sentence), reprovar (admonish, disapprove, plough, rebuke, reprobate, throw-out), rejeitar (cast off, confute, daff, deny, disapprove, disavow, discard, disclaim, get up the better, negative, overrule, pill, pip, put by, rebuff, rebut, refuse, reject, renounce, repel, reprobate, repudiate, repulse, throw-out, turn down), desapropriar (expropriate). (various references)

Romanian

critica (animadvert, arraign, attack, carp, censure, criticize, defame, judge, lash, pick, pick holes in, preach down, pull to pieces, slate), confisca (confiscate, seize, sequester), condamna (adjudge, ban, blame, censure, convict, crime, decry, deprecate, fine, judge, reprobate, reprove, sentence, vituperate), judeca (adjudge, adjudicate, calculate, censure, criticize, deem, discuss, give, judge, ratiocinate, reason, slate, think, try), fi obligat sã, dezaproba (censure, deprecate, disallow, disapprove, disapprove of, disavow, discommend, discountenance, disfavor, disfavour, dispraise, reject, reprobate), da la reformã, blama (blame, censure, dispraise, reprehend). (various references)

Russian 

осуждать (convict, criminate, criticize, cry shame upon, damn, decry, denounce, deprecate, disapprove, excoriate, judge, preach down, prejudge, rebuke), браковать (disapprove, disapprove of, rebuke, reject). (various references)

Scottish

dìt (reproach). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

osuditi (censure, convict, damn, decry, denounce, deplore, deprecate, disapprove, excoriate, inveigh, slate). (various references)

Spanish

condenar (convict, damn, doom, indict, sentence, trash). (various references)

Swedish

döma (adjudge, adjudicate, damn, decide, deem, doom, find, judge, pass, send down, sentence, try, umpire), fördöma (blame, curse, damn, decry, denounce). (various references)

Turkish

suçlamak (accuse, arraign, blame, bring an accusation against smb., censure, charge, charge smb. with smth., chastise, criminate, excoriate, impeach, impute, incriminate, inculpate, indict, put in the dock, put the blame on smb., reproach, task, tax), mahkum etmek (adjudge, convict, doom, rap, sentence), kamulaştırmak (confiscate, dispossess, expropriate, impress, nationalize, sequestrate, socialize), kınamak (blame, cast reflection on smb., castigate, censure, decry, denounce, disapprove, fault, remonstrate, reprimand, reproach, reprobate, reprove, slate, stigmatize, strafe), istimlak etmek (confiscate, expropriate), hüküm vermek (adjudge, adjudicate, bring in, decide, decree, doom, estimate, form an estimate of, judge, return, rule, sentence), el koymak (appropriate, arrest, attach, capture, commandeer, distrain, distrain on, distrain up, distress, embargo, hold, impound, impress, levy, requisition, seise, seize, sequester, sequestrate, take the action, usurp, vest), ayıplamak (blame, cast reflection on smb., chide, dispraise, fault, reflect on, reflect upon, reproach, reprobate, reprove), çarptırmak (inflict, slap on). (various references)

Ukrainian

конфіскувати (confiscate, embargo, expropriate, seize, sequestrate), гудити (blame, censure, decry, reprobate, toot, worsen), засуджувати (censure, criminate, sentence), бракувати (cast, want). (various references)

Welsh

condemnio, collfarnu (doom). (various references)

condemna, condemnabimini, condemnabis, condemnabit, condemnabitis, condemnabo, condemnabunt, condemnans, condemnantes, condemnare, condemnas, condemnassent, condemnassetis, condemnat, condemnati, condemnatus, condemnaverunt, condemnavit, condemnemus, condemnet, contemno, damno, -are, -avi, -atus, reproba, reprobabitur, reprobare, reprobari, reprobassent, reprobastis, reprobat, reprobatum, reprobatus, reprobaverunt, reprobo. (various references)

reprobare. (various references)

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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Derivations

Words beginning with "condemn": condemnable, condemnation, condemnations, condemnatory, condemned, condemner, condemners, condemning, condemnor, condemnors, condemns. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Condemn" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: codemen, codemn, Condamine, condamn, condem, condemm, condemna, conden, Cordesman, Kondeyne, Ochdamh. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: conned.

-2 letters: coden, coned, demon, donne, monde, nomen, nonce.

-3 letters: code, coed, come, cone, conn, deco, demo, dome, done, mend, meno, mode, neon, node, nome, none, omen, once.

-4 letters: cod, con, den, doc, doe, dom, don, end, eon, med, men, moc, mod, mon, nod, nom, ode, one.

-5 letters: de, do, ed, em, en, me, mo.

+1 letter: condemns.

+2 letters: condemned, condemner, condemnor, condiment, contemned, dominance.

+3 letters: comedienne, commending, condemners, condemning, condemnors, condiments, dominances, nonmedical, uncombined, unconsumed.

+4 letters: comediennes, commandment, companioned, condemnable, condimental, countermand, documenting, encrimsoned, nonacademic, nondomestic, unconfirmed.

+5 letters: commandments, commendation, condemnation, condemnatory, contaminated, countermands, countermined, denouncement, indomethacin, malcontented, misconnected, nicotinamide, nonacademics, noncommitted, nonconformed, nondomestics, oleandomycin, predominance, predominancy, recommending, uncompounded, undocumented.