condemnedadjective
uk/kənˈdemd/us/kənˈdemd/condemned adjective (PERSON)
A condemned person is someone who is going to be killed, especially as a punishment for having committed a very serious crime, such as murder.
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Death penalties
- behead
- burn
- capital punishment
- chair
- condemn
- condemn sb to (do) sth
- 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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condemned adjective (BUILDING)
A condemned building that has been officially judged not safe for people to live in or to use, or food that has been officially judged not safe to eat.
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In bad condition
- battered
- battle-scarred
- be on the skids idiom
- beat up
- blasted
- have seen better days idiom
- hors de combat
- impair
- in good, bad, etc. repair idiom
- kaput
- scuff
- shabby
- shattered
- shop-soiled
- shopworn
- worn out
- worse
- worsen
- wrack
- wrecked
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