condemn

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. v. To express strong disapproval of: condemned the needless waste of food.
2. v. To pronounce judgment against; sentence: condemned the felons to prison.
3. v. To judge or declare to be unfit for use or consumption, usually by official order: condemn an old building.
4. v. To lend credence to or provide evidence for an adverse judgment against: were condemned by their actions.
5. v. Law To appropriate (property) for public use.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. To pronounce judgment against; express or feel strong disapprobation of; hold to be positively wrong, reprehensible, intolerable, etc.: used either of persons or things, with as, for, or on account of before an expressed ground of condemnation: as, to condemn a person for bad conduct, or as (sometimes colloquially for) a blackguard; to condemn an action for or on account of its injurious tendency.
2. To serve for the condemnation of; afford occasion for condemning: as, his very looks condemn him.
3. To convict: with of.
4. To pronounce to be guilty, as opposed to acquit or absolve; more specifically, to sentence to punishment; utter sentence against judicially; doom: the penalty, when expressed, being in the infinitive, or a noun or noun-phrase preceded by to: as, to condemn a person to pay a fine, or to imprisonment.
5. [Formerly the expression to condemn in a fine was used.
6. To demonstrate the guilt of, by comparison and contrast.
7. To judge or pronounce to be unfit for use or service: as, the ship was condemned as unseaworthy; the provisions were condemned by the commissary.
8. To judge or pronounce to be forfeited; specifically, to declare (a vessel) a lawful prize: as, the ship and her cargo were condemned.
9. To pronounce, by judicial authority, subject to use for a public purpose. See condemnation, 1 . Synonyms To censure, blame, reprove, reproach, reprobate.

Wiktionary

1. v. transitive To confer some sort of eternal divine punishment upon.
2. v. transitive To adjudge (a building) as being unfit for habitation.
3. v. transitive To scold sharply; to excoriate the perpetrators of.
4. v. transitive To judicially pronounce (someone) guilty.
5. v. transitive To determine and declare (property) to be assigned to public use. See eminent domain
6. v. transitive To adjudge (food or drink) as being unfit for human consumption.
7. v. transitive, law To declare (a vessel) to be forfeited to the government, to be a prize, or to be unfit for service.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. v. To pronounce to be wrong; to disapprove of; to censure.
2. v. To declare the guilt of; to make manifest the faults or unworthiness of; to convict of guilt.
3. v. To pronounce a judicial sentence against; to sentence to punishment, suffering, or loss; to doom; -- with to before the penalty.
4. v. To amerce or fine; -- with in before the penalty.
5. v. To adjudge or pronounce to be unfit for use or service; to adjudge or pronounce to be forfeited.
6. v. (Law) To doom to be taken for public use, under the right of eminent domain.

WordNet 3.0

1. v. declare or judge unfit for use or habitation
2. v. appropriate (property) for public use
3. v. demonstrate the guilt of (someone)
4. v. pronounce a sentence on (somebody) in a court of law
5. v. compel or force into a particular state or activity
6. v. express strong disapproval of