to condemn
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5.5
- verb
- /kənˈdɛm/
:
condenar a
- All you're doing is condemning her to total exclusion.
- condemned to repeat
- condemned to live
- condemned to remain
That any should be condemned to go hungry as we were.
- That any should be condemned to go hungry as we were.
- So that is the dysfunctional state of consciousness that is condemned to perpetual discontent.
- And I saw pill mills develop in that area that were exploiting people, condemning them to death.
- OK, So so nobody's genetically condemned to addiction, but some people are born more sensitive than others.
- And, and that's why Sart says on his view of existentialism, human beings are the beings that are condemned to be free.
- He is going to be, you know, friendless, condemned to death, gets killed.
- And so this is what you are condemned to.
Examples
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We are often warned that ignoring history will condemn us to repeat the errors of the past.
Academic text (1993) -
We must all learn to fend for ourselves, condemned to go solo against our own demons.
Fiction book (2001) -
"I will not allow you to condemn her to the life you have chosen for yourself.
Fiction book (1994) -
That any should be condemned to go hungry as we were.
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We are condemning these people to a hell no one deserves.
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I am afraid the government is condemning more women to suffer domestic violence in silence.
Academic text (2011) -
Santiana said those unfamiliar with history are condemned to repeat it.
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Even before prison, he'd been, he said, condemned to solitary confinement.
Fiction book (2001) -
Sisyphus was a king who cheated the gods and was condemned to endlessly roll a boulder up a hill.
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The new policy will condemn many families to poverty if it is not reversed.
Synonyms
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6.2
Make someone feel pain or suffer harm
Antonyms
How Punished
Surface Forms
Etymology
Condemn comes from Latin con- 'together' and damnare 'to judge or doom', like the word damn. So to condemn someone to poverty or pain is to 'doom' them to that hard life, which explains this use.