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Oppose vs Condemned - What's the difference?

oppose | condemned |

As verbs the difference between oppose and condemned

is that oppose is while condemned is (condemn).

As nouns the difference between oppose and condemned

is that oppose is opposite while condemned is a person sentenced to death.

As adjectives the difference between oppose and condemned

is that oppose is opposite while condemned is having received a curse to be doomed to suffer eternally.

oppose

English

Verb

(oppos)
  • To attempt to stop the progression of; to resist or antagonize by physical means, or by arguments, etc.; to contend against; to confront; to resist; to withstand.
    • to oppose''' the king in battle; to '''oppose a bill in Congress
    There is still time to oppose this plan.
  • To object to.
    • Many religious leaders oppose cloning humans.
  • To present or set up in opposition; to pose.
    • They are opposed to any form of hierarchy.
  • * John Locke
    • I may oppose my single opinion to his.
  • * 1839 , Philip Meadows Taylor, Confessions of a Thug
    • [T]hree walls had been left standing, with large intervals between each; and they would certainly oppose a most formidable interruption to an invader.
  • To place in front of, or over against; to set opposite; to exhibit.
  • * Shakespeare
    • Her grace sat down / In a rich chair of state; opposing freely / The beauty of her person to the people.
  • To compete with; to strive against.
    • to oppose a rival for a prize
  • * Shakespeare
    • I am too weak / To oppose your cunning.

    Synonyms

    *

    Antonyms

    * support

    Related terms

    * opponent * opposer * opposite * opposition

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    condemned

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • 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 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.}}
  • Adjudged or sentenced to punishment, destruction, or confiscation.
  • (of a building) Officially marked uninhabitable.

    • Synonyms

    * (having received a curse) damned, doomed

    Antonyms

    * (having received a curse) blessed, saved

    Noun

    (condemned)
  • A person sentenced to death.

    • Verb

    (head)
  • (condemn)