condemn sb to (do) sth
— phrasal verb with condemn uk/kənˈdem/us/kənˈdem/verb [ T ]
to say what the punishment of someone who has committed a serious crime will be:
She was condemned to death and executed two weeks later.
[ often passive ] They were condemned to spend the rest of their lives in prison.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Death penalties
- behead
- burn
- capital punishment
- chair
- condemn
- condemned
- condemned cell
- execute
- execution
- executioner
- gallows
- garrotte
- hangman
- hung, drawn, and quartered idiom
- noose
- scaffold
- stake
- stone
- string
- string sb up
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