condemn

Betekenis (Engels)

  1. (transitive) To strongly criticise or denounce; to excoriate.
  2. (transitive) To judicially pronounce (someone) guilty.
  3. (transitive) To judicially announce a verdict upon a finding of guilt; To sentence
  4. (transitive) To confer eternal divine punishment upon.
  5. (figuratively, transitive) To destine to experience bad circumstances; to doom.
  6. (transitive) To declare something to be unfit for use, or further use.
  7. (transitive) To declare something to be unfit for use, or further use.
  8. (transitive) To declare something to be unfit for use, or further use.
  9. (transitive) To declare something to be unfit for use, or further use.
  10. (transitive) To declare something to be unfit for use, or further use.
  11. (transitive) To determine and declare (property) to be assigned to public use. See eminent domain.
  12. (transitive) To declare (a vessel) to be forfeited to the government or to be a prize.

Frekwensie

C2
Uitgespreek as (IPA)
/kənˈdɛm/
Etimologie (Engels)

In summary

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.

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