Meaning

• To strongly criticise or denounce; to excoriate the perpetrators of.

  "The president condemned the terrorists."

• To judicially pronounce (someone) guilty.

• To confer eternal divine punishment upon.

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

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

• To adjudge (building or construction work) as of unsatisfactory quality, requiring the work to be redone.

• To adjudge (food or drink) as being unfit for human consumption.

• To determine and declare (property) to be assigned to public use. See eminent domain.

• To declare (a vessel) to be forfeited to the government, to be a prize, or to be unfit for service.