<p><strong>Verb (used with object):</strong></p><ul><li>to express an unfavorable or adverse judgment on; indicate strong disapproval of; censure.</li><li>to pronounce to be guilty; sentence to punishment: to condemn a murderer to life imprisonment.</li><li>Antonyms: liberate, exculpate, exonerate.</li><li>to give grounds or reason for convicting or censuring: His acts condemn him.</li><li>to judge or pronounce to be unfit for use or service: to condemn an old building.</li><li>U.S. Law: to acquire ownership of for a public purpose, under the right of eminent domain: The city condemned the property.</li><li>to force into a specific state or activity: His lack of education condemned him to a life of menial jobs.</li><li>to doom to eternal punishment in hell.</li><li>to declare incurable.</li></ul>