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Condemn vs Abandoned - What's the difference?

condemn | abandoned |

As verbs the difference between condemn and abandoned

is that condemn is to confer some sort of eternal divine punishment upon while abandoned is (abandon).

As an adjective abandoned is

self-abandoned, or given up to vice; immoral; extremely wicked, or sinning without restraint; irreclaimably wicked; as, an abandoned villain .

condemn

English

Verb

(en verb)
  • To confer some sort of eternal divine punishment upon.
  • To adjudge (a building) as being unfit for habitation.
  • The house was condemned after it was badly damaged by fire.
  • To scold sharply; to excoriate the perpetrators of.
  • The president condemns the terrorist.
    The president condemns the terrorist attacks.
  • To judicially pronounce (someone) guilty.
  • To determine and declare (property) to be assigned to public use. See eminent domain
  • To adjudge (food or drink) as being unfit for human consumption.
  • (legal) To declare (a vessel) to be forfeited to the government, to be a prize, or to be unfit for service.
  • Synonyms

    * damn * (to pronounce guilty) convict

    Antonyms

    * save * (to pronounce guilty) acquit

    abandoned

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Self-abandoned, or given up to vice; immoral; extremely wicked, or sinning without restraint; irreclaimably wicked; as, an abandoned villain.
  • No longer maintained by its former owners, residents
  • * (rfdate), Thomson:
  • Free from constraint; uninhibited.
  • * 1919 , :
  • Everything was dirty and shabby. There was no sign of the abandoned luxury that Colonel MacAndrew had so confidently described.
  • (geology) No longer being acted upon by the geologic forces that formed it.
  • Derived terms

    * abandonedness

    Synonyms

    * deserted * forsaken * corrupt * depraved * dissolute * graceless * reprobate * unprincipled * vicious * vile * wicked

    Verb

    (head)
  • (abandon)
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