to condemn
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7.2
- verb
- /kənˈdɛm/
- Formal
:
expropiar
- If you do not have a functioning roof within ten days, this property will be condemned, seized by the authorities, demolished.
Examples
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The building had been condemned in May, and I was clearly trespassing.
Blog text (32) -
The law gives us the right to condemn property.
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They're gonna condemn the house.
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This land's about to be condemned.
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So the government condemned the property and argued this is just a ramshackle old building is not worth anything.
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In 2004, the small community of Faith, SD, received word that its school building had been condemned.
Academic text (2007) -
By order of the eThekwini Metropolitan Municipality, this property is condemned and must be vacated immediately.
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A narrow road outside Red Bank led them to a condemned farmhouse and an overgrown field ringed with earth-moving equipment.
Fiction book (2001) -
The city plans to condemn the abandoned warehouse to build a new park.
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After the inspection, the authorities decided to condemn the unsafe building.
Synonyms
4
8.8
To take property from its owner, usually by the government for public use
Antonyms
Surface Forms
Etymology
A helpful way to remember this legal sense of condemn is to know it shares the Latin parts con- 'together' and damnare 'to judge or doom' with the word damn, so authorities 'judge' the land as taken for public use and formally take it.