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Meaning:

Verb:

  • law To declare (a vessel) to be forfeited to the government, to be a prize, or to be unfit for service.
  • transitive To adjudge (a building) as being unfit for habitation.
  • transitive To adjudge (food or drink) as being unfit for human consumption.
  • transitive To confer some sort of eternal divine punishment upon.
  • transitive To determine and declare (property) to be assigned to public use. See eminent domain
  • transitive To judicially pronounce (someone) guilty.
  • transitive To scold sharply; to excoriate the perpetrators of.

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