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WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
v. challenge the honesty or credibility of; as of witnesses charge with an offense or misdemeanor; "The public officials were impeached" charge with a crime or misdemeanor bring an accusation against; level a charge against; "He charged the man with spousal ...

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
verb EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES ▪ Congress voted to impeach the President, but he resigned before any action was taken. ▪ The governor was impeached for accepting bribes. EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ And the nation cheered when the Supreme Court and the Senate ...

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
The motion to impeach is used to bring an accusation against a person. A majority vote is needed to put the accused on trial. A majority vote convicts for a minor offense, and a two-thirds vote for a major offense. A vote of censure or reprimand requires ...

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 14c., "to impede, hinder, prevent," from Anglo-French empecher , Old French empeechier "hinder" (12c., Modern French empêcher ), from Late Latin impedicare "to fetter, catch, entangle," from assimilated form of in- "into, in" (see in- (2)) + Latin ...

Usage examples of impeach.

Motel to be followed by the numerous guests into the generous dining area where the bride cut a cake topped by a spun sugar approximation of the towering artifact beyond the glass where their romance had first been kindled amid the passions that had blazed forth here on a darker occasion as the screen revisited the floodlit melee of flying rocks and beer cans, Stars, Bars and Stripes asunder, signs and placards brandished and trampled GOD IS JUDGE aloft and IMPEACH smouldering on the judicial robes of controversy lately put to rest by the conciliatory visit of Senator wait stop it, what are you doing!

Thomas de Vaux, of Lanercost and Gilsland, take trumpet and herald, and go instantly to the tent of him whom they call Archduke of Austria, and see that it be when the press of his knights and vassals is greatest around him, as is likely at this hour, for the German boar breakfasts ere he hears mass-- enter his presence with as little reverence as thou mayest, and impeach him, on the part of Richard of England, that he hath this night, by his own hand, or that of others, stolen from its staff the Banner of England.

The real question is why we are being forced to impeach a president elected by the largest margin in the history of presidential elections.

Leal and loyal as it is the proud vaunt of the Bleater's readers, one and all, to be, the inhabitant who pens this exposure does not personally impeach, either her Majesty the queen, or the illustrious Prince Consort.

She said, "My mother told me that demarchs who get impeached kill themselves.

And not just any Democratic president, but one who was impeached, held in contempt by a federal judge, and disbarred by the Supreme Court.

It is an arresting fact that an impeached, disgraced, disbarred Democratic president successfully rallied liberals to his cause merely by calling his opponents "right-wing Republicans.

The President is shocked, and, I should think, alarmed, for by allowing Belknap to resign, Grant inadvertently (the adverb used by his supporters) made it impossible for Belknap to be impeached, because in the eyes of many constitutional authorities an official may not be impeached, much less convicted of a crime committed in office, when he no longer holds that office.

The ad hominem fallacy consists of attempting to refute an argument by impeaching the character of its proponent.

He would permit Miller, as author of the top-priority measure, to read out to his assembled colleagues and the gallery, “Resolved, that Douglass Dilman, President of the United States, be impeached of high crimes and misdemeanors in office.

Then the person being impeached can have a defense, can retain a staff of attorneys—managers, they are called—to combat the charges of the House managers.

The legislator who was impeached, Senator Blount, was not actually tried but was expelled from the Senate, because it was determined that a congressman was not strictly a civil officer.

Eight were impeached, eight were merely censured, twenty-two were acquitted, and seventeen simply resigned their offices and put an end to the proceedings.

Then he knew that there would not be one caption to every photograph, but two, and with cynical amusement he wrote the alternate captions in his head: (A) “The grim and embittered President, shown minutes before learning he was impeached for high crimes and misdemeanors by a majority of the House”.

I’ve been impeached—that’s an awful thing—the second President ever to be impeached for crimes, existent or nonexistent.