Yahoo Web Search

Search results

1. Dictionary

   impeach

   /ɪmˈpiːtʃ/

   verb

   • 1. (especially in the US) charge (the holder of a public office) with misconduct: "the governor served only one year before being impeached and convicted for fiscal fraud" Similar indictchargeaccusebring a charge againstbring a case againstlay charges againstprefer charges againstarraigntake to courtput on trialbring to trialprosecuteinformal:have the law onOpposite acquit
   • ▪ charge (someone) with treason or another crime against the state. historical
   • 2. call into question the integrity or validity of (a practice): "there is no desire to impeach the privileges of the House of Commons" Similar challengequestioncall into questioncast doubt onraise doubts aboutOpposite confirm

   Word Origin late Middle English (also in the sense ‘hinder, prevent’; earlier as empeche): from Old French empecher ‘impede’, from late Latin impedicare ‘catch, entangle’ (based on pedica ‘a fetter’, from pes, ped- ‘foot’). Compare with impede.

   Derivatives

   • 1. impeachable adjective

   Scrabble Points: 16

   • I

     1

   • M

     3

   • P

     3

   • E

     1

   • A

     1

   • C

     3

   • H

     4

   Powered by Oxford Dictionaries

   More definitions, origin and scrabble points