condemn > define

verb

• Express strong disapproval of.
  • usage: "We condemn the racism in South Africa"; "These ideas were reprobated"
  • synonyms: reprobate, decry, objurgate, excoriate
• Declare or judge unfit for use or habitation.
  • usage: "The building was condemned by the inspector"
• Compel or force into a particular state or activity.
  • usage: "His devotion to his sick wife condemned him to a lonely existence"
• Demonstrate the guilt of (someone. )
  • usage: "Her strange behavior condemned her"
• Pronounce a sentence on (somebody) in a court of law.
  • usage: "He was condemned to ten years in prison"
  • synonyms: sentence, doom
• Appropriate (property) for public use.
  • usage: "the county condemned the land to build a highway"

• (v.t.) To pronounce to be wrong; to disapprove of; to censure.
• (v.t.) 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.
• (v.t.) To amerce or fine; -- with in before the penalty.
• (v.t.) To declare the guilt of; to make manifest the faults or unworthiness of; to convict of guilt.
• (v.t.) To doom to be taken for public use, under the right of eminent domain.
• (v.t.) To pronounce a judicial sentence against; to sentence to punishment, suffering or loss; to doom; -- with to before the penalty.