condemned

• IPA^(key): /kənˈdɛmd/

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• Rhymes: -ɛmd

condemned (not comparable)

1. Having received a curse to be doomed to suffer eternally.
2. Having been sharply scolded.
   • 2011 December 19, Kerry Brown, “Kim Jong-il obituary”, in The Guardian‎:

     Kim Jong-il, who has died aged 69, was the general secretary of the Workers party of Korea, and head of the military in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK). He was one of the most reclusive and widely condemned national leaders of the late 20th and early 21st century, leaving his country diplomatically isolated, economically broken and divided from South Korea.

3. Adjudged or sentenced to punishment, destruction, or confiscation.
   • 2023 May 31, Christian Wolmar, “TPE taken back in-house... but don't expect major changes”, in RAIL, number 984, page 48:

     I have written 'was' because it seems that Great British Railways, which has already survived a near-death experience when Harper took over as Transport Secretary in the autumn, may well be back in the condemned cell.

4. (of a building) Officially marked uninhabitable.
   • 2012 January 16, Mary/Annie (Hoarders)‎, season 5, episode 3, archived from the original on June 14, 2022:

     And she also faces the risk and the probability that her home will be condemned

• (having received a curse): damned, doomed

• (antonym(s) of “having received a curse”): blessed, saved

• self-condemned

condemned (plural condemned)

1. A person sentenced to death.

condemned

1. simple past and past participle of condemn