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| condemning | |
| 1. n. condemnation |  |
| condemn | |
| 1. v. To strongly criticise or denounce; to excoriate the perpetrators of. | |
| The president condemned the terrorists. | |
| 2. v. To judicially pronounce (someone) guilty. | |
| 3. v. To confer eternal divine punishment upon. | |
| 4. v. To adjudge (a building) as being unfit for habitation. | |
| The house was condemned after it was badly damaged by fire. | |
| 5. v. To adjudge (building or construction work) as of unsatisfactory quality, requiring the work to be redone. | |
| 6. v. To adjudge (food or drink) as being unfit for human consumption. | |
| 7. v. To determine and declare (property) to be assigned to public use. See eminent domain. | |
| 8. v. (transitive, legal) To declare (a vessel) to be forfeited to the government, to be a prize, or to be unfit for service. | |
