Klryz
Pronunciation guide: IPA symbols, stress and word endings

Vowels

iːseeɪsite / ɛbedæcat
ɑːfatherɒhot (UK)ɔːlawʊput
uːtooʌcupɜːbirdəabout
eɪdayaɪmyɔɪboyaʊnow
əʊ / oʊgo (UK / US)ɪəneareəhairʊətour

Consonants that look unusual

θthinðthisʃsheʒmeasure
tʃchurchdʒjudgeŋsingjyes

p b t d k g f v s z h m n l r w sound as in ordinary English spelling.

Marks

  • ˈ main stress, before the stressed syllable: /ˈwɔːtə/ water · ˌ lighter (secondary) stress: /ˌʌndəˈstænd/ understand
  • ː a long vowel · (r) an r said only in accents that pronounce it (most American, Scottish, Irish)

Common word endings

  • -s / -es (plurals; he/she form of verbs): /s/ after voiceless sounds (cats), /z/ after voiced (dogs), /ɪz/ after s, z, sh, ch, j sounds (buses, watches). Spelling: -es after s, x, z, ch, sh; consonant + y → -ies (city → cities).
  • -ed (past): /t/ after voiceless sounds (walked), /d/ after voiced (played), /ɪd/ after t or d (wanted). Spelling: love → loved, stop → stopped, carry → carried.
  • -ing: make → making, run → running, see → seeing.
  • Irregular: go, went, gone · be, was, been · see, saw, seen · man → men · child → children · mouse → mice.
  • Older (King James) forms: -eth = -s (he loveth = he loves) · -est with “thou” (thou lovest) · spake = spoke.

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condemn

/kənˈdɛm/ verb

Forms condemns condemning condemned

  1. verb (transitive) To strongly criticise or denounce; to excoriate. “The president condemned the terrorists.”
  2. verb (transitive) To judicially pronounce (someone) guilty.
  3. verb (transitive) To judicially announce a verdict upon a finding of guilt; To sentence “The judge condemned him to death.”
  4. verb (transitive) To confer eternal divine punishment upon.
  5. verb (transitive, figuratively) To destine to experience bad circumstances; to doom. “Too many people are condemned to a life of poverty.”
  6. verb (transitive) To declare something to be unfit for use, or further use.
  7. verb (transitive) To adjudge (a building) as being unfit for habitation. “The house was condemned after it was badly damaged by fire.”
  8. verb (transitive) To adjudge (building or construction work) as of unsatisfactory quality, requiring the work to be redone.

Synonyms

admonish objurgate upbraid animadvert bash bawl out tilt cannonade slash lash blame scorch blast berate berisp castigate censure charge chastise chew out reprobate decry excoriate sentence doom

Antonyms

acquit clear vindicate acquittance assoil assoilzie absolve disculp disculpate exculpate exonerate save

Etymology

From Middle English condempnen, from Old French condamner, from Latin condemnāre (“to sentence, condemn, blame”), from com- + damnāre (“to harm, condemn, damn”), from damnum (“damage, injury, loss”). Displaced native Middle English fordemen (from Old English fordeman (“condemn, sentence, doom”) > Modern English fordeem.

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To pronounce to be wrong; to disapprove of; to censure.
  2. verb To declare the guilt of; to make manifest the faults or unworthiness of; to convict of guilt.

Etymology [L. condemnare; con- + damnare to condemn: cf. F. condamner. See Damn.]

Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “condemn”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details

Sanskrit

Sanskrit dictionary entries whose meaning includes “condemn” (best matches first).