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Verdict vs Condemn - What's the difference?

verdict | condemn |

As a noun verdict

is (lb) a decision on an issue of fact in a civil or criminal case or an inquest.

As a verb condemn is

to confer some sort of eternal divine punishment upon.

verdict

Noun

(en noun)
  • (lb) A decision on an issue of fact in a civil or criminal case or an inquest.
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  • *:Such a scandal as the prosecution of a brother for forgery—with a verdict of guilty —is a most truly horrible, deplorable, fatal thing. It takes the respectability out of a family perhaps at a critical moment, when the family is just assuming the robes of respectability:it is a black spot which all the soaps ever advertised could never wash off.
  • An opinion or judgement.
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  • Derived terms

    * verdictive

    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