Condemn vs. Chasten — What's the Difference?

Express complete disapproval of; censure

(of a rebuke or misfortune) have a restraining or moderating effect on

Sentence (someone) to a particular punishment, especially death

To correct by punishment or reproof; take to task.

To express strong disapproval of

To restrain; subdue

To pronounce judgment against; sentence

To rid of excess; refine or purify

To judge or declare to be unfit for use or consumption, usually by official order

To make chaste.

To force (someone) to experience, endure, or do something

(archaic) To chastize; to punish or reprimand for the sake of improvement.

To lend credence to or provide evidence for an adverse judgment against

To render humble or restrained.

(Law) To appropriate (property) for public use.

To correct by punishment; to inflict pain upon the purpose of reclaiming; to discipline; as, to chasten a son with a rod.

(transitive) To strongly criticise or denounce; to excoriate the perpetrators of.

To purify from errors or faults; to refine.

(transitive) To judicially pronounce (someone) guilty.

Censure severely;

(transitive) To judicially announce a verdict upon a finding of guilt; To sentence

Restrain or temper

(transitive) To confer eternal divine punishment upon.

Correct by punishment or discipline

(transitive) To adjudge (a building) as being unfit for habitation.

(transitive) To adjudge (building or construction work) as of unsatisfactory quality, requiring the work to be redone.

(transitive) To adjudge (food or drink) as being unfit for human consumption.

To declare something to be unfit for use, or further use.

(transitive) 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.

To pronounce to be wrong; to disapprove of; to censure.

To declare the guilt of; to make manifest the faults or unworthiness of; to convict of guilt.

To pronounce a judicial sentence against; to sentence to punishment, suffering, or loss; to doom; - with to before the penalty.

To amerce or fine; - with in before the penalty.

To adjudge or pronounce to be unfit for use or service; to adjudge or pronounce to be forfeited; as, the ship and her cargo were condemned.

To doom to be taken for public use, under the right of eminent domain.

Express strong disapproval of;

Declare or judge unfit;

Compel or force into a particular state or activity;

Demonstrate the guilt of (someone);

Pronounce a sentence on (somebody) in a court of law;