Condemn meaning : To strongly criticise or denounce; to excoriate the perpetrators of. To judicially pronounce (someone) guilty. To confer eternal divine punishment upon. To adjudge (a building) as being unfit for habitation. To adjudge (building or construction work) as of unsatisfactory quality, requiring the work to be redone. To adjudge (food or drink) as being unfit for human consumption. To determine and declare (property) to be assigned to public use. See eminent domain. To declare (a vessel) to be forfeited to the government, to be a prize, or to be unfit for service.