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veroordelen — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • condemn verb To strongly criticise something as wrong or unacceptable.
  • convict verb To find someone guilty of a crime in a court of law.
  • judge noun A public official who presides over court cases and delivers rulings.
  • reprobate adj Rejected; cast off as worthless.
  • sentence noun A group of words that forms a complete grammatical statement, usually with a subject and a verb.

Senses

veroordelen is used for these senses in English:

  • convict (chiefly, religion, ethics) To convince, persuade; to cause (someone) to believe in (something).
  • judge (ambitransitive) To criticize or label another person or thing; to be judgmental toward.
  • reprobate To have strong disapproval of something; to reprove; to condemn.
  • sentence (transitive) To declare a sentence on a convicted person; to condemn to punishment.

condemn — full definition

  1. verb To strongly criticise something as wrong or unacceptable.
  2. verb To officially declare a building unsafe for use.
  3. verb To sentence someone to a punishment, especially death.

convict — full definition

  1. verb To find someone guilty of a crime in a court of law.
  2. noun A person who has been found guilty of a crime and is serving a sentence.

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