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• past tense form of condemn.
• past participle of condemn.

condemned

American  

[kuhn-demd] / kənˈdɛmd /

adjective

1. pronounced guilty; sentenced to punishment, especially capital punishment.

   A condemned man has the right to know how the execution will proceed.

2. deemed or declared unfit for use or service.

   One of the condemned buildings is going to be demolished to make room for luxury apartments.

3. viewed or spoken of with strong disapproval; judged as wrong or unacceptable, often formally.

   Apartheid, by universal agreement, is an inhumane, unjust, and condemned practice.

4. doomed to eternal punishment in hell; damned.

   At the Last Judgment, condemned sinners will offer excuses in vain.

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noun

1. Usually the condemned

   1. the person or persons pronounced guilty in a court of law and sentenced to punishment, especially capital punishment.

      We join in prayer for the condemned, his victim, and their families.

   2. the damned.

      The condemned are those who are full of themselves and laugh at their unrighteousness.

verb

1. the simple past tense and past participle of condemn.

Other Word Forms

• self-condemned
  adjective
• uncondemned
  adjective

Etymology

Origin of condemned

condemn ( def. ) + -ed ² ( def. )

Example Sentences

See Examples For:

condemned

When the district attorney later dropped the investigation, citing lack of evidence, Hahn publicly condemned Bycel.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 11, 2026

Morgan condemned the "mindless vandalism", saying "it is the cost to the community that sickens me the most".

From BBC ● Aug. 10, 2026

United Nations chief Antonio Guterres on Thursday condemned both sides for attacks on civilian areas as Ukraine and Russia kept up their artillery war.

From Barron's ● Aug. 6, 2026

He damns terrorists with faint praise, as when he condemned the attack on a Jewish school in West Bloomfield, Mich., before excusing the perpetrator with the words “hurt people do hurt people.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 5, 2026

Gilbert’s Copernicanism guaranteed a hostile response from orthodox Catholic scholars once Copernicanism had been condemned in 1616.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton

Related Words

• convicted