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condemned

adjectivenounverbcommon in dialogue

  • //kənˈdɛmd//

Having received a curse to be doomed to suffer eternally.

adjective

  1. 1

    Having received a curse to be doomed to suffer eternally.

  2. 2

    Having been sharply scolded.

    Kim Jong-il, who has died aged 69, was the general secretary of the Workers party of Korea, and head of the military in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK). He was one of the most reclusive and widely condemned national leaders of the late 20th and early 21st century, leaving his country diplomatically isolated, economically broken and divided from South Korea.

  3. 3

    Adjudged or sentenced to punishment, destruction, or confiscation.

    I have written 'was' because it seems that Great British Railways, which has already survived a near-death experience when Harper took over as Transport Secretary in the autumn, may well be back in the condemned cell.

  4. 4

    Officially marked uninhabitable.

    And she also faces the risk and the probability that her home will be condemned

noun

  1. 1

    A person sentenced to death.

verb

  1. 1

    Also a form of condemnsimple past and past participle of condemn

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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

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