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Adjective condemned has 4 senses
- condemned, convicted - pronounced or proved guilty; "the condemned man faced the firing squad with dignity"; "a convicted criminal"
Antonyms: innocent, guiltless, clean-handed (indirect, via guilty)
- censured, condemned - officially and strongly disapproved; "the censured conflict of interest"; "her condemned behavior"
Antonym: approved (indirect, via disapproved)
- appropriated, condemned, confiscate, confiscated, seized, taken over - taken without permission or consent especially by public authority; "the condemned land was used for a highway cloverleaf"; "the confiscated liquor was poured down the drain"
Antonym: given (indirect, via taken)
- condemned - officially pronounced unfit for use or consumption; "a row of condemned bulildings"
Antonyms: fit, fit to, fit for (indirect, via unfit)
Verb condemn has 5 senses
- condemn, reprobate, decry, objurgate, excoriate - express strong disapproval of; "We condemn the racism in South Africa"; "These ideas were reprobated"
--1 is one way to denounce
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s something
- condemn - declare or judge unfit; "The building was condemned by the inspector"
--2 is one way to declare
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s something
- condemn - compel or force into a particular state or activity; "His devotion to his sick wife condemned him to a lonely existence"
--3 is one way to compel, oblige, obligate
Sample sentence:
Something ----s somebody
- condemn - demonstrate the guilt of (someone); "Her strange behavior condemned her"
--4 is one way to attest, certify, manifest, demonstrate, evidence
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody
- sentence, condemn, doom - pronounce a sentence on (somebody) in a court of law; "He was condemned to ten years in prison"
--5 is one way to declare
Sample sentence:
They want to condemn the prisoners
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