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condemned

 
Dictionary: 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.

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adjective

    Sentenced to terrible, irrevocable punishment: doomed, fated, foredoomed, lost. See law, religion.

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The adjective has 4 meanings:

Meaning #1: pronounced or proved guilty
  Synonym: convicted

Meaning #2: officially and strongly disapproved
  Synonym: censured

Meaning #3: taken without permission or consent especially by public authority
  Synonyms: appropriated, confiscate, confiscated, seized, taken over

Meaning #4: officially pronounced unfit for use or consumption


 
 
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