MEANING
To accept or tolerate behavior regarded as wrong without taking sufficient action against it.
Use it for
Words that belong together
- condone cruelty
- condone misconduct
On the page
Silence did not mean she condoned the cruelty.
He refused to condone misconduct merely because the culprit was useful.
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Word forms
- Base
- condone
- Past tense
- condoned
- Past participle
- condoned
- Present participle
- condoning
Full tense & aspect guide
- Present
- condone
- Present continuous
- am/is/are condoning
- Present perfect
- have/has condoned
- Present perfect continuous
- have/has been condoning
- Past
- condoned
- Past continuous
- was/were condoning
- Past perfect
- had condoned
- Past perfect continuous
- had been condoning
- Future
- will condone
- Future continuous
- will be condoning
- Future perfect
- will have condoned
- Future perfect continuous
- will have been condoning
Choose the auxiliary that agrees with your subject. These are constructions of one word, not separate entries.
Usage notes
Primary category: literary. Forms: condone; condones; condoned; condoned; condoning Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Third-person singular: condones.
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