condemn
Verbin Dialogen belegt
- Kanada//kənˈdɛm//
- Australien//kənˈdem//
- //kənˈdɪm//
To strongly criticise or denounce; to excoriate.
Verb
- 1
To strongly criticise or denounce; to excoriate.
The president condemned the terrorists.
Ignorant and ſuperſtitious wretches meaſure the actions of letterd and philoſophical men by the tattle of their nurſes or illiterate parents and companions, or by the faſhion of the country : and people of differing religions judge and condemn each other by their own tenents ; when both of them cannot be in the right, and it is well if either of them are.
- 2
To judicially pronounce (someone) guilty.
- 3
To judicially announce a verdict upon a finding of guilt; To sentence
The judge condemned him to death.
She was condemned to life in prison.
- 4
To confer eternal divine punishment upon.
- 5
übertragenTo destine to experience bad circumstances; to doom.
Too many people are condemned to a life of poverty.
- 6
To declare something to be unfit for use, or further use.
There was a massive slaughter of W.R. steam power at the conclusion of the summer timetable. In all, 169 locomotives were condemned.
- 7
To declare something to be unfit for use, or further use. To adjudge (a building) as being unfit for habitation.
The house was condemned after it was badly damaged by fire.
- 8
To declare something to be unfit for use, or further use. To adjudge (building or construction work) as of unsatisfactory quality, requiring the work to be redone.
- 9
To declare something to be unfit for use, or further use. To adjudge (food or drink) as being unfit for human consumption.
- 10
To declare something to be unfit for use, or further use. To declare (a vessel) to be unfit for service.
- 11
To determine and declare (property) to be assigned to public use. See eminent domain.
- 12
To declare (a vessel) to be forfeited to the government or to be a prize.
Herkunft
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ḱe? Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm Proto-Italic *kom Proto-Italic *kom- Latin con- Proto-Indo-European *deh₂- Proto-Indo-European *deh₂p-der. Proto-Indo-European *dh₂pnóm Proto-Italic *dapnom Latin damnum Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti Proto-Indo-European *-h₂tiinflu. Proto-Italic *-ājō Proto-Italic *-āō Latin -ō Latin damnō Latin condemnō Proto-Italic *-āzi ▲ Latin -ereinflu. Latin -āre Latin condemnārebor. Old French condamnerbor. Middle English condempnen English condemn From Middle English condempnen, from Old French condamner, from Latin condemnāre (“to sentence, condemn, blame”), from com- + damnāre (“to harm, condemn, damn”), from damnum (“damage, injury, loss”). Displaced native Middle English fordemen (from Old English fordeman (“condemn, sentence, doom”) > Modern English fordeem.
Formen
- Präteritum
- condemned
- Partizip II
- condemned
- Partizip I
- condemning
- 3. Person Singular
- condemns
condemn · To strongly criticise or denounce; to excoriate.
condemned · Having received a curse to be doomed to suffer eternally.condescending · Assuming a tone of superiority, or a patronizing attitude.condition · A state or quality.