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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
condemned
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a condemned prisoner (=one who is going to be punished by being killed)
▪ There is an appeal process for condemned prisoners.
condemned cell
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
man
▪ At the top of the steps stood the condemned man with the rope around his neck.
▪ Pool simply coasted along, and Darlington, for all of their honest endeavour, played with the confidence of condemned men.
▪ All through the meal he picked at his food, while Peter ate heartily with a quip about being a condemned man.
▪ One man who was attendant to the condemned men said that cell 13 became like a church.
▪ The pinioned hands of the condemned man went suddenly white as the noose and the drop snapped his spinal column.
▪ Maura began walking towards them like a condemned man on his way to the gallows.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Chin spent the night locked in a jail cell with a condemned man.
▪ Here are the kitchens where the condemned prisoner's last meal was prepared.
▪ The state allows no communication with a condemned man.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ But once a man is condemned, danger is something as simple as power, and money is power.
▪ Council members condemned plans to make universities bid for public money based on the number of students they expected to teach.
▪ He had watched the prison officers putting the rope around the condemned man's neck.
▪ Like Jagger, like Rotten, he is condemned to live out its pantomime for ever.
▪ Needless to say, he fails, and she is condemned to be executed.
▪ She walked through, feeling like a condemned convict.
▪ The team even received some compensation in the event of a last-minute reprieve being granted to the condemned person.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Condemned

Condemn \Con*demn"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Condemned; p. pr. & vb. n. Condemning (? or ?).] [L. condemnare; con- + damnare to condemn: cf. F. condamner. See Damn.]

  1. To pronounce to be wrong; to disapprove of; to censure.

    Condemn the fault, and not the actor of it! Why, every fault's condemned ere it be done.
    --Shak.

    Wilt thou condemn him that is most just?
    --Job xxxiv. 17.

  2. To declare the guilt of; to make manifest the faults or unworthiness of; to convict of guilt.

    The queen of the south shall rise up in the judgment with this generation, and shall condemn it.
    --Matt. xii. 42.

  3. To pronounce a judicial sentence against; to sentence to punishment, suffering, or loss; to doom; -- with to before the penalty.

    Driven out from bliss, condemned In this abhorred deep to utter woe.
    --Milton.

    To each his sufferings; all are men, Condemned alike to groan.
    --Gray.

    And they shall condemn him to death.
    --Matt. xx. 18.

    The thief condemned, in law already dead.
    --Pope.

    No flocks that range the valley free, To slaughter I condemn.
    --Goldsmith.

  4. To amerce or fine; -- with in before the penalty.

    The king of Egypt . . . condemned the land in a hundred talents of silver.
    --2 Cron. xxxvi. 3.

  5. To adjudge or pronounce to be unfit for use or service; to adjudge or pronounce to be forfeited; as, the ship and her cargo were condemned.

  6. (Law) To doom to be taken for public use, under the right of eminent domain.

    Syn: To blame; censure; reprove; reproach; upbraid; reprobate; convict; doom; sentence; adjudge.

Condemned

Condemned \Con*demned"\, a.

  1. Pronounced to be wrong, guilty, worthless, or forfeited; adjudged or sentenced to punishment, destruction, or confiscation.

  2. Used for condemned persons.

    Richard Savage . . . had lain with fifty pounds weight of irons on his legs in the condemned ward of Newgate.
    --Macaulay.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
condemned

1540s, "found guilty, at fault," past participle adjective from condemn. Of property, "found unfit for use," from 1798.

Wiktionary
condemned
  1. 1 Having received a curse to be doomed to suffer eternally. 2 Having been sharply scolded. n. A person sentenced to death. v

  2. (en-past of: condemn)

WordNet
condemned
  1. adj. pronounced or proved guilty; "the condemned man faced the firing squad with dignity"; "a convicted criminal" [syn: convicted]

  2. officially and strongly disapproved; "the censured conflict of interest"; "her condemned behavior" [syn: censured]

  3. taken without permission or consent especially by public authority; "the condemned land was used for a highway cloverleaf"; "the confiscated liquor was poured down the drain" [syn: appropriated, confiscate, confiscated, seized, taken over]

  4. officially pronounced unfit for use or consumption; "a row of condemned bulildings"

Wikipedia
Condemned (1929 film)

Condemned is a 1929 American black and white Pre-Code melodrama, directed by Wesley Ruggles, and starring Ronald Colman, Ann Harding, Dudley Digges, Louis Wolheim, William Elmer, and Wilhelm von Brincken. The movie was adapted by Sidney Howard from the novel by Blair Niles. The tagline was "A kiss that cannot be forgotten!"

Condemned (band)

Condemned are a death metal / deathgrind band from Belfast, Northern Ireland.

Condemned (1953 film)

Condemned is a Spanish 1953 rural melodrama film directed by Manuel Mur Oti and written by José Suárez Carreño and Mur Oti from a Suarez Carreño's play of the same title. The picture stars Carlos Lemos, Aurora Bautista and José Suárez.

Mur Oti achieved a very elaborate and aestheticist, yet implausible, product.

Condemned (1984 film)

Condemned, a 1984 Filipino film, depicts the cruelty of big-city life, with a focus on Manila. The plot centers on the corruption of society and abuses of power. The film was directed by Mario O'Hara, and the screenplay was written by Jose Javier Reyes and Frank Rivera. The film received an "A" review from the Film Ratings Board.

Condemned (2015 film)

Condemned is a 2015 American horror comedy film written and directed by Eli Morgan Gesner. It stars Dylan Penn as a rich youth who moves in with her musician boyfriend (Ronen Rubenstein) at a condemned building populated by drug addicts, prostitutes, and shut-ins. After their water supply is tainted, the inhabitants become violently psychotic and attack each other. It premiered at Screamfest in October, had a limited theatrical release on November 13, 2015, and was released on VOD and DVD on January 5, 2016. It is the theatrical debut of both Gesner and Penn.

Usage examples of "condemned".

Another African nation was delivered, trussed and tied, to Soviet sovereignty, and millions of black Angolans were condemned to another decade of brutal civil war.

The fact that certain demonstrations or experiments upon living animals had already been condemned as unjustifiable cruelty by the leading men in the medical profession, and by some of the principal medical journals of England, was then as utterly unknown to me as the same facts are to-day unknown to the average graduate of every medical school in the United States.

But we do not hesitate to condemn the practice of operating on living animals for the mere purpose of acquiring coolness and dexterity, and WE THINK THAT THE REPETITION OF EXPERIMENTS BEFORE STUDENTS, MERELY IN ORDER TO EXHIBIT THEM AS EXPERIMENTS, SHOWING WHAT IS ALREADY KNOWN, IS EQUALLY TO BE CONDEMNED.

He discovered that a large part of the fresh meat prepared at the establishment of a certain slaughtering establishment in Chicago was derived from animals which had been condemned on the antemortem inspection, but the flesh of which was perimitted TO BE SOLD AS PURE FOOD AFTER THE DISEASED PARTS HAD BEEN REMOVED.

He condemned those in the antiabortion movement who condoned the murder of Dr.

With equal haste and violence, the Oriental synod of fifty bishops degraded Cyril and Memnon from their episcopal honors, condemned, in the twelve anathemas, the purest venom of the Apollinarian heresy, and described the Alexandrian primate as a monster, born and educated for the destruction of the church.

And even the old ideal of life, the salvation of the Arahat to be won in this world and in this world only, by self-culture and self-mastery, is forgotten, or mentioned only to be condemned.

Chapter VIII Don Jose de Antequera -- Appoints himself Governor of Asuncion -- Unsettled state of affairs in the town -- He is commanded to relinquish his illegal power -- He refuses, and resorts to arms -- After some success he is defeated and condemned to be executed -- He is shot on his way to the scaffold -- Renewed hatred against the Jesuits -- Their labours among the Indians of the Chaco From the departure of Cardenas in 1650, to about 1720, was the halcyon period of the Jesuit missions in Paraguay.

Castaing was condemned to death, and ordered to pay 100,000 francs damages to the family of Auguste Ballet.

Enciso had complained to King Ferdinand of the way in which he had been treated, and the king had not only refused to support Balboa with a royal warrant for his actions, but had condemned his course and ordered him to return to Spain.

As for Ate, she is the Greek goddess of vengeance and mischief, who created so much trouble even among the gods that she was cast out of heaven and condemned to live on earth, where, Benedick implies, she has taken on the likeness of Beatrice.

Or the hour brought a stroll with the French danseuse and her poodle, and a conversation about the mere trivialities of life, which a year or two, or even a few months ago, Bernardine would have condemned as beneath contempt, but, which were now taking their rightful place in her new standard of importances.

For us, that means an unprecedented supply of condemned Americans, Viet Cong, Nigerians, Biafrans, Indonesians, South Africans, Russians, Indians, Pakistanis and Arabs.

I have the confidence to solicit them to speak in the behalf of a man condemned for the blackest crime in human nature?

At the touch of a switch, superheated steam, excessive blowoff from the city powerhouse, blasted down the pipe and the condemned were literally steamed alive.