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1. : to declare to be reprehensible, wrong, or evil usually after weighing evidence and without reservation. a policy widely condemned as racist. 2. a. : to pronounce guilty : convict. b. : sentence, doom. condemn a prisoner to die. 3. : to adjudge unfit for use or consumption. condemn an old apartment building. 4.
to severely punish someone who has committed a crime, or to force someone to suffer: Those who remember the past are not condemned to repeat it. Illness condemned her to spend her remaining days in a home .
1. to express strong disapproval of; censure. 2. to pronounce judicial sentence on. 3. to demonstrate the guilt of. his secretive behaviour condemned him. 4. to judge or pronounce unfit for use.
You can condemn, or openly criticize, someone who is behaving inappropriately. If you are an animal rights activist, you would probably condemn someone for wearing fur.
condemn somebody/something The government issued a statement condemning the killings. condemn somebody/something for/as something The editor of the newspaper was condemned as lacking integrity.
100 Bible Verses about Condemning Others. Romans 2:1 ESV / 629 helpful votes. Helpful. Not Helpful. Therefore you have no excuse, O man, every one of you who judges. For in passing judgment on another you condemn yourself, because you, the judge, practice the very same things. Luke 6:37 ESV / 460 helpful votes. Helpful. Not Helpful.
to pronounce to be guilty; sentence to punishment: to condemn a murderer to life imprisonment. Antonyms: liberate, exculpate, exonerate. to give grounds or reason for convicting or censuring: His acts condemn him. to judge or pronounce to be unfit for use or service: to condemn an old building.
