Condemnとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• IPA: /kənˈdɛm/
  • (pin–pen merger) IPA: /kənˈdɪm/
• 韻: -ɛm

動詞

condemn (third-person singular simple present condemns, present participle condemning, simple past and past participle condemned)

1. (transitive) To strongly criticise or denounce; to excoriate.

   Synonyms: admonish, objurgate, upbraid; see also Thesaurus:criticize

   The president condemned the terrorists.

   • 1722, William Wollaston, “Sect. V. Truths relating to the Deity. Of his exiſtence, perfection, providence, &c.”, in The Religion of Nature Delineated‎, page 81:

     Ignorant and ſuperſtitious wretches meaſure the actions of letterd and philoſophical men by the tattle of their nurſes or illiterate parents and companions, or by the faſhion of the country : and people of differing religions judge and condemn each other by their own tenents ; when both of them cannot be in the right, and it is well if either of them are.

2. (transitive) To judicially pronounce (someone) guilty.

   Synonyms: convict, damn, sentence; see also Thesaurus:convict

   Antonyms: acquit, clear, vindicate; see also Thesaurus:acquit

3. (transitive) To judicially announce a verdict upon a finding of guilt; To sentence

   The judge condemned him to death.

   She was condemned to life in prison.

4. (transitive) To confer eternal divine punishment upon.

   Synonym: damn

   Antonym: save

5. (transitive, figuratively) To destine to experience bad circumstances; to doom.

   Synonyms: curse, fate, foreordain, preordain

   Too many people are condemned to a life of poverty.

6. (transitive) To declare something to be unfit for use, or further use.
   • 1962 December, “Motive Power Miscellany: Western Region”, in Modern Railways, page 425:

     There was a massive slaughter of W.R. steam power at the conclusion of the summer timetable. In all, 169 locomotives were condemned.

   1. (transitive) To adjudge (a building) as being unfit for habitation.

      The house was condemned after it was badly damaged by fire.

   2. (transitive) To adjudge (building or construction work) as of unsatisfactory quality, requiring the work to be redone.
   3. (transitive) To adjudge (food or drink) as being unfit for human consumption.
   4. (transitive, law) To declare (a vessel) to be unfit for service.
7. (transitive) To determine and declare (property) to be assigned to public use. See eminent domain.
8. (transitive, law) To declare (a vessel) to be forfeited to the government or to be a prize.

派生語

関連する語

• condemnable
• condemnation

Further reading

• “condemn”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “condemn”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
• “condemn”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.