English-Dutch translations for condemn

• veroordelen
  Wij zullen hen echter niet alleen veroordelen. We shall not only condemn them.
  Wij veroordelen iedere vorm van geweld. We condemn all kinds of violence.
  Ook kunnen we de gruweldaden veroordelen. We can also condemn the atrocities.
• afkeuren
  Wij kunnen dan ook niet anders dan het beleid van dit Iraanse regime afkeuren. This leads us to condemn the policies pursued by the Iranian regime.
  We kunnen een dergelijk minderhedenbeleid alleen maar afkeuren, want het bedreigt de sociale cohesie. We can only condemn a policy on minorities which is inevitably dangerous for social cohesion.
  Betreurenswaardige voorvallen zoals de recente gebeurtenissen in Istanboel kunnen wij alleen maar afkeuren. We believe that such regrettable scenes as those in Istanbul in recent days should be condemned.

Definition of condemn

• To strongly criticise or denounce; to excoriate the perpetrators of
• To judicially pronounce guilty
• To adjudge as being unfit for habitation
• To adjudge as of unsatisfactory quality, requiring the work to be redone
• To determine and declare to be assigned to public use. See eminent domain

Examples

• The president condemned the terrorists.
• The house was condemned after it was badly damaged by fire.

Related words

• condemnation
• condemned
• condemnatory
• condemner
• condemnable
• condemnor
• condemnded
• condemned house
• condemned to death