condemn🔊

To strongly criticise or denounce; to excoriate the perpetrators of.

To judicially pronounce (someone) guilty. +

To judicially announce a verdict upon a finding of guilt; To sentence

To confer eternal divine punishment upon.

To adjudge (a building) as being unfit for habitation.

To adjudge (building or construction work) as of unsatisfactory quality, requiring the work to be redone.

To adjudge (food or drink) as being unfit for human consumption.

To declare something to be unfit for use, or further use.

To determine and declare (property) to be assigned to public use. See eminent domain.

(law) To declare (a vessel) to be forfeited to the government, to be a prize, or to be unfit for service.