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condemn
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condemn as in:  She condemned their plan

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We condemn racism wherever it is found.
condemn = strongly criticize
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    The United Nations condemned North Korea's development of nuclear weapons.
    condemned = strongly criticized
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    She condemned his behavior as reckless.
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    "What do you want them to do?" he says. "Condemn him? Al's already dead. He can't hear it and it's too late."  (source)
    Condemn = strongly criticize
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    Don't condemn me, but think of me as a person who sometimes reaches the bursting point!  (source)
    condemn = criticize
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    Max made his way to Munich and Molching, and now he sat in a stranger's kitchen, asking for the help he craved and suffering the condemnation he felt he deserved.  (source)
    condemnation = strong criticism
    standard suffix: The suffix "-tion", converts a verb into a noun that denotes the action or result of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in action, education, and observation.
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    A moment's silence passed, and then Stacey, his eyes cold and condemning, said quietly, "It was you all right, T.J. It was you."  (source)
    condemning = expressing strong criticism
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    What kind of advice was that? She condemns Romeo with the Same tongue she used to praise him! She shall hear no more of my secrets.  (source)
    condemns = expresses strong criticism of
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    Thus condemn'd, The current of my former life was stemm'd, And to this arbitrary queen of sense I bow'd a tranced vassal.†  (source)
    condemn'd = expressed strong criticism
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    The next day he went on a live show on the Voice of America and angrily condemned the attacks.  (source)
    condemned = strongly criticized
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    In so manly a manner the mighty-famed chieftain, [37] 55 Hoard-ward of heroes, with horses and jewels War-storms requited, that none e'er condemneth Who willeth to tell truth with full justice.†  (source)
    condemneth = expresses strong criticism
    standard suffix: Today, the suffix "-eth" is replaced by "-s", so that where they said "She condemneth" in older English, today we say "She condemns."
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    All in all, the season looked like setting up a Purity record, and condemnations were so few that even my father was pleased enough to announce guardedly in one of his addresses that Waknuk would seem to be giving the forces of Evil quite a setback this year — and it was a matter for thanksgiving that retribution for the importation of the great-horses had been visited upon their owner himself, and not upon the whole community.†  (source)
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    He whipped a string of condemnatory words about her, and as she turned away with a frozen laugh, he took a step after her and swiftly planted his little foot in the most celebrated of targets.†  (source)
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    The condemner and the condemned.  (source)
    condemner = someone who expresses strong criticism
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condemn as in:  was condemned to life in prison

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    He was condemned to ten years in prison.
    condemned = legally sentenced (to punishment)
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    Can we condemn her to a life imprisonment just to satisfy our own greed?  (source)
    condemn = force into an undesired situation
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    A single touch would kill a mortal instantly, condemn a great god to an eternity of torment.  (source)
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    He condemned the commander to death without honor.  (source)
    condemned = legally sentenced (to punishment)
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    And Jesus said unto her, Neither do I condemn thee: go, and sin no more.  (source)
    condemn = sentence to death
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    Shall I respect man when he condemns me?  (source)
    condemns = forces into a bad situation
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    For two tributes to have a shot at winning, our "romance" must be so popular with the audience that condemning it would jeopardize the success of the Games.  (source)
    condemning = forcing it to end
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    The injustice of his sentence was very flagrant; all Paris was indignant; and it was judged that his religion and wealth rather than the crime alleged against him had been the cause of his condemnation.  (source)
    condemnation = being found legally guilty
    standard suffix: The suffix "-tion", converts a verb into a noun that denotes the action or result of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in action, education, and observation.
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    Stanley wondered if this was how a condemned man felt on his way to the electric chair, appreciating all of the good things in life for the last time.  (source)
    condemned = found guilty and facing punishment
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    I'll try the whole cause, and condemn you to death.  (source)
    condemn = sentence (assign legal punishment)
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    It is the law, not I, condemns your brother:  (source)
    condemns = that finds guilty and sentences to punishment
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    It is my wife you be condemning now.  (source)
    condemning = sentencing to legal punishment
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    He thought of the rules he had broken so far: enough that if he were caught, now, he would be condemned.  (source)
    condemned = found guilty and punished
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condemn as in:  condemned the building

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The building was condemned by the inspector.
condemned = declared not suitable to be occupied
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    Homeless people used to sleep there, but the building was condemned and torn down.
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    I began to dread those calls, since every time we heard from them, there was a new problem: a mudslide had washed away what was left of the stairs; our neighbors the Freemans were trying to get the house condemned; Maureen had fallen off the porch and gashed her head.  (source)
    condemned = an official government finding that a building is not suitable to be occupied
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    Since then Deering Highlands has been a ghost town: avoided, forgotten, condemned.  (source)
    condemned = declared not suitable for occupation
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    DEVGRU often partners with business owners or local government officials to use old or condemned buildings as training facilities...  (source)
    condemned = declared not suitable for occupation
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    Several buildings were decorated with vicious graffiti, broken glass, and the tattered signs the city used to condemn them.  (source)
    condemn = mark them as unsuitable for occupation
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    These buildings were condemned, practically abandoned.  (source)
    condemned = declared not suitable for occupation
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    On the inside it's an abandoned police station; from the outside, mundanes only see a condemned apartment building, or a vacant lot, or…  (source)
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