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Impeach   /ɪmpˈitʃ/   Listen
Impeach

verb
(past & past part. impeached; pres. part. impeaching)
1.
Challenge the honesty or veracity of.
2.
Charge (a public official) with an offense or misdemeanor committed while in office.
3.
Bring an accusation against; level a charge against.  Synonyms: accuse, criminate, incriminate.



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"Impeach" Quotes from Famous Books



... new councils, the first measure of the Carthaginians was to impeach Hasdrubal on a charge of treason, for having involved his country in these difficulties, and the next was to send a solemn embassy to Rome, to acknowledge the fault of which their nation had been guilty, to offer to surrender Hasdrubal into their hands, as the principal ...
— Hannibal - Makers of History • Jacob Abbott

... do impeach Andrew Johnson, Vice-President and acting President of the United States, of high ...
— History of the Thirty-Ninth Congress of the United States • Wiliam H. Barnes

... will not last, but that the chances are as infinity to one against the existence of such a balanced contest. This is a mere question of fact. We quote the words of the essay, and defy the Westminster Reviewer to impeach our accuracy:— ...
— The Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches of Lord Macaulay, Vol. 2 (of 4) - Contributions To The Edinburgh Review • Thomas Babington Macaulay

... Contest happening betwixt him and the Persian Ambassadour (to whom some reported Sir Robert gave a Box on the Ear) the King sent them both into Persia, there mutually to impeach one another, and joyned Doctor Gough (a Senior Fellow of Trinity colledge in Cambridge) in commission with Sir Robert. In this Voyage (as I am informed) both died on the Seas, before the controverted difference was ever heard in the Court of Persia, about the beginning ...
— Highways & Byways in Sussex • E.V. Lucas

... any impeach on the earth: you shall perceive, sir, it is the most fortunate weapon that ever rid on a poor gentleman's thigh: shall I tell you, sir? you talk of Morglay, Excalibur, Durindana, or so: tut, I lend no credit to that is reported of them, ...
— Every Man In His Humour • Ben Jonson


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