HOW TO PRONOUNCE
condemn
/kənˈdɛm/
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The final written “n” is silent.
Start with a light vowel and make dem the strongest syllable. Close the lips for m at the end; do not add an n sound after it here.
2 syllables · Stress on syllable 2
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“The statement did not condemn the proposal.”
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CMU Pronouncing Dictionary ↗What does condemn mean?
verb
- To strongly criticise or denounce; to excoriate.
- To judicially pronounce (someone) guilty.
- To judicially announce a verdict upon a finding of guilt; To sentence
More meanings (9)
verb
- To confer eternal divine punishment upon.
- (figuratively) To destine to experience bad circumstances; to doom.
- To declare something to be unfit for use, or further use.
- 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 declare (a vessel) to be unfit for service.
- To determine and declare (property) to be assigned to public use. See eminent domain.
- To declare (a vessel) to be forfeited to the government or to be a prize.
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IPA pronunciation
/kənˈdɛm/
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A habit is to him something which has a hold on him, something not easily thrown off even though judgment condemn it.
If she has her palms read, she will have many friends of the opposite sex, but her own sex will condemn her.
More book examples (3)
I understand such feelings in others, and if never having felt them I cannot approve of them, neither do I condemn them.
And all they who shall condemn me, behold, all they shall wax old as a garment, and the moth shall eat them up.
What I have to do is to see, at any rate, that I do not lend myself to the wrong which I condemn.