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Condemn vs Exonerate - What's the difference?

condemn | exonerate |

In transitive terms the difference between condemn and exonerate

is that condemn is to adjudge (food or drink) as being unfit for human consumption while exonerate is to free from accusation or blame.

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

    Related terms

    * condemnable * condemnation

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    exonerate

    English

    Verb

    (exonerat)
  • To relieve (someone or something) of a load; to unburden (a load).
  • (obsolete, reflexive) Of a body of water, to discharge (oneself), empty oneself.
  • *, II.ii.3:
    • I would examine the Caspian Sea, and see where and how it exonerates itself, after it hath taken in Volga, Iaxartes, Oxus, and those great rivers; at the mouth of Obi, or where?
  • To free from an obligation, responsibility or task.
  • To free from accusation or blame.

    • Synonyms

    * (to free from accusation ) acquit English transitive verbs ----