All 3 Uses
condemn
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The Pit and the Pendulum
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- The condemned to death, I knew, perished usually at...
*condemned = legally sentenced (given legal punishment)
- Moreover, my dungeon, as well as all the condemned cells at Toledo, had stone floors, and light was not altogether excluded.†
- It was hope—the hope that triumphs on the rack—that whispers to the death-condemned even in the dungeons of the Inquisition.†
Definitions:
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(1)
(condemn as in: She condemned their plan) express strong criticism
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(condemn as in: was condemned to life in prison) to declare someone guilty of a crime and often sentence them to punishment; or more broadly, to cause someone to be judged guilty or doomed to an unwanted fate (as when evidence condemns a suspect)
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(condemn as in: condemned the building) an official government finding that a building is not suitable to be occupied
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(meaning too rare to warrant focus) In law, condemn can also refer to a legal real estate procedure in which the government forces someone to sell property to the government.