condemns
- 1Third-person singular simple present of condemn.
The committee condemns the attack in its official statement.
The city inspector condemns buildings that are no longer safe to occupy.
Note
Every meaning behind this form is transitive, so it always arrives with an object: a critic condemns a policy, a court condemns the accused. When the verb means to sentence or to doom, the object is usually followed by to, as in the judge condemns him to life in prison or a bad harvest condemns the village to hunger. Leaving out the object, or the to, makes the sentence feel unfinished.
The judge condemns him to ten years in prison.
A single bad harvest condemns the village to a hungry winter.
condemns is a form of condemn
condemn, verb: To express strong disapproval of someone or something; to denounce. Full entry
- Forms
- condemncondemns he/she/itcondemning -ing formcondemned past tense, past participle
- Spelling
- condemn → condemns: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /z/.
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