Word Meanings - CONDEMN - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To doom to be taken for public use, under the right of eminent domain. Syn. -- To blame; censure; reprove; reproach; upbraid; reprobate; convict; doom; sentence; adjudge. (more info) 1. To pronounce to be wrong; to disapprove of; to censure.

Additional info about word: CONDEMN

To doom to be taken for public use, under the right of eminent domain. Syn. -- To blame; censure; reprove; reproach; upbraid; reprobate; convict; doom; sentence; adjudge. (more info) 1. 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. Shak. Wilt thou condemn him that is most just Job xxxiv. 17. 2. 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. Matt. xii. 42. 3. To pronounce a judicial sentence against; to sentence to punishment, suffering, or loss; to doom; -- with to before the penalty. Driven out from bliss, condemned In this abhorred deep to utter woe. Milton. To each his sufferings; all are men, Condemned alike to groan. Gray. And they shall condemn him to death. Matt. xx. 18. The thief condemned, in law already dead. Pope. No flocks that range the valley free, To slaughter I condemn. Goldsmith. 4. To amerce or fine; -- with in before the penalty. The king of Egypt . . . condemned the land in a hundred talents of silver. 2 Cron. xxxvi. 3. 5. 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.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of CONDEMN)

• Amerce
• Find
• bind
• mulct
• condemn
• Blame
• Censure
• chide
• rebuke
• reproach
• vituperate
• dispraise
• disapprove
• reprehend
• reprobate
• reprove
• stricture
• inculpate
• berate
• scold
• upbraid
• disapproval
• remonstrance
• reprimand
• dispiaise
• Convict
• Sentence
• Proscribe
• Denounce
• reject
• interdict
• ostracize
• disallow
• prohibit
• forbid

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of CONDEMN)

• Laud
• praise
• approve
• commend
• Sanction

Related words: (words related to CONDEMN)

• COMMENDATOR
  One who holds a benefice in commendam; a commendatary. Chalmers.
• DISAPPROVAL
  Disapprobation; dislike; censure; adverse judgment.
• REPROACHER
  One who reproaches.
• SCOLDER
  1. One who scolds. The oyster catcher; -- so called from its shrill cries. The old squaw.
• APPROVEDLY
  So as to secure approbation; in an approved manner.
• CHIDESTER
  A female scold.
• COMMENDER
  One who commends or praises.
• PRAISEWORTHINESS
  The quality or state of being praiseworthy.
• DISAPPROVE
  1. To pass unfavorable judgment upon; to condemn by an act of the judgment; to regard as wrong, unsuitable, or inexpedient; to censure; as, to disapprove the conduct of others. 2. To refuse official approbation to; to disallow; to decline
• DENOUNCE
  denunciare; de- + nunciare, nuntiare, to announce, report, nuntius a 1. To make known in a solemn or official manner; to declare; to proclaim . Denouncing wrath to come. Milton. I denounce unto you this day, that ye shall surely perish. Deut. xxx.
• SCOLDINGLY
  In a scolding manner.
• INTERDICT
  To lay under an interdict; to cut off from the enjoyment of religious privileges, as a city, a church, an individual. An archbishop may not only excommunicate and interdict his suffragans, but his vicar general may do the same. Ayliffe. (more info)
• CENSURER
  One who censures. Sha.
• CHIDER
  One who chides or quarrels. Shak.
• CONVICTION
  A judgment of condemnation entered by a court having jurisdiction; the act or process of finding guilty, or the state of being found guilty of any crime by a legal tribunal. Conviction may accrue two ways. Blackstone. 3. The act of convincing of
• REPREHENDER
  One who reprehends.
• CONDEMNER
  One who condemns or censures.
• REJECTER
  One who rejects.
• PRAISER
  1. One who praises. "Praisers of men." Sir P. Sidney. 2. An appraiser; a valuator. Sir T. North.
• FORBIDDANCE
  The act of forbidding; prohibition; command or edict against a thing. ow hast thou yield to transgress The strict forbiddance. Milton.
• APPRAISER
  One who appraises; esp., a person appointed and sworn to estimate and fix the value of goods or estates.
• ORCHIDEOUS
  See ORCHIDACEOUS
• PROTUBERATE
  To swell, or be prominent, beyond the adjacent surface; to bulge out. S. Sharp.
• PRECONDEMN
  To condemn beforehand. -- Pre*con`dem*na"tion, n.