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Webster 1913 Edition


Condemned

Con-demned′

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Adj.
1.
Pronounced to be wrong, guilty, worthless, or forfeited; adjudged or sentenced to punishment, destruction, or confiscation.
2.
Used for condemned persons.
Richard Savage . . . had lain with fifty pounds weight of irons on his legs in the
condemned
ward of Newgate.
Macaulay.

Webster 1828 Edition


Condemned

CONDEMNED

,
pp.
Censures; pronounced to be wrong, guilty, worthless or forfeited; adjudged or sentenced to punishment.

Definition 2024


condemned

condemned

English

Adjective

condemned (not comparable)

  1. Having received a curse to be doomed to suffer eternally.
  2. Having been sharply scolded.
    • 2011 December 19, Kerry Brown, “Kim Jong-il obituary”, in The Guardian:
      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. Adjudged or sentenced to punishment, destruction, or confiscation.
  4. (of a building) Officially marked uninhabitable.

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Noun

condemned (plural condemned)

  1. A person sentenced to death.

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Verb

condemned

  1. simple past tense and past participle of condemn