Condemned vs Denounced - What's the difference?
condemned | denounced |
Having received a curse to be doomed to suffer eternally.
Having been sharply scolded.
* {{quote-news
, year=2011
, date=December 19
, author=Kerry Brown
, title=Kim Jong-il obituary
, work=The Guardian
Adjudged or sentenced to punishment, destruction, or confiscation.
(of a building) Officially marked uninhabitable.
A person sentenced to death.
(condemn)
(denounce)
(obsolete) To make known in a formal manner; to proclaim; to announce; to declare.
*, II.35:
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To criticize or speak out against (someone or something); to point out as deserving of reprehension or punishment, etc.; to openly accuse or condemn in a threatening manner; to invoke censure upon; to stigmatize; to blame.
* 2013 May 23, (Sarah Lyall), "
To make a formal or public accusation against; to inform against; to accuse.
(obsolete) To proclaim in a threatening manner; to threaten by some outward sign or expression; make a menace of.
To announce the termination of; especially a treaty or armistice.
As verbs the difference between condemned and denounced
is that condemned is (condemn) while denounced is (denounce).As an adjective condemned
is having received a curse to be doomed to suffer eternally.As a noun condemned
is a person sentenced to death.condemned
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Adjective
(-)citation, page= , passage=Kim Jong-il, who has died aged 69, was the general secretary of the Workers party of Korea, and head of the military in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK). He was one of the most reclusive and widely condemned national leaders of the late 20th and early 21st century, leaving his country diplomatically isolated, economically broken and divided from South Korea.}}
Synonyms
* (having received a curse) damned, doomedAntonyms
* (having received a curse) blessed, savedNoun
(condemned)Verb
(head)denounced
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Verb
(head)Anagrams
*denounce
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Verb
(denounc)- Nero .
- to denounce someone as a swindler, or as a coward
British Leader’s Liberal Turn Sets Off a Rebellion in His Party," New York Times (retrieved 29 May 2013):
- Mr. Cameron had a respite Thursday from the negative chatter swirling around him when he appeared outside 10 Downing Street to denounce the murder a day before of a British soldier on a London street.
- to denounce a confederate in crime
- to denounce someone to the authorities
- to denounce''' war; to '''denounce punishment