condone
verb /kənˈdəʊn/
/kənˈdəʊn/
Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they condone | /kənˈdəʊn/ /kənˈdəʊn/ |
| he / she / it condones | /kənˈdəʊnz/ /kənˈdəʊnz/ |
| past simple condoned | /kənˈdəʊnd/ /kənˈdəʊnd/ |
| past participle condoned | /kənˈdəʊnd/ /kənˈdəʊnd/ |
| -ing form condoning | /kənˈdəʊnɪŋ/ /kənˈdəʊnɪŋ/ |
- condone something | condone (somebody) doing something to accept behaviour that is morally wrong or to treat it as if it were not serious
- Terrorism can never be condoned.
- The college cannot condone any behaviour that involves illicit drugs.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadverb- implicitly
- tacitly
- cannot
Word Originmid 19th cent.: from Latin condonare ‘refrain from punishing’, from con- ‘altogether’ + donare ‘give’.