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fördöma — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • condemn verb To strongly criticise something as wrong or unacceptable.
  • confound verb To completely puzzle or baffle someone.
  • curse noun A spell or supernatural force believed to bring harm or bad luck.
  • damn interjection Used to express anger, frustration, or surprise.
  • decry verb To denounce as harmful.
  • denounce verb To publicly criticize or condemn someone or something as wrong.
  • slate noun A fine-grained gray rock that splits easily into thin flat sheets, often used for roofing.

Senses

fördöma is used for these senses in English:

  • damn To condemn; to declare guilty; to doom; to adjudge to punishment.
  • decry (transitive) To denounce as harmful.
  • denounce (transitive) To criticize or speak out against (someone or something); to point out as deserving of reprehension, etc.; to openly accuse or condemn in a threatening manner; to invoke censure upon; to stigmatize; to blame.
  • slate (transitive, chiefly, British) To criticise harshly.

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.

confound — full definition

  1. verb To completely puzzle or baffle someone.
  2. verb To mix up or fail to distinguish between two things.
  3. verb To defeat or ruin someone's plans.
  4. noun In statistics, a variable that distorts the apparent relationship between two other variables (a "confounding variable").

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