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