Impeach

Definitions: Impeach

Impeach

Verb

1. Challenge the honesty or credibility of; as of witnesses.

2. Charge with an offense or misdemeanor; "The public officials were impeached".

3. Charge with a crime or misdemeanor.

4. Bring an accusation against; level a charge against; "He charged the man with spousal abuse".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "impeach" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1350. (references)

Law

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Impeach

Accusation

Inform against, indict, denounce, arraign; impeach, appeach; have up, show up, pull up; challenge, cite, lodge a complaint; prosecute, bring an action against; blow upon.

Disapprobation

Accuse; impeach, denounce; hold up to reprobation, hold up to execration; expose, brand, gibbet, stigmatize; show up, pull up, take up; cry "shame" upon; be outspoken; raise a hue and cry against.

Lawsuit

Serve with a writ, cite, apprehend, arraign, sue, prosecute, bring an action against, indict, impeach, attach, distrain, commit; arrest; summon, summons; give in charge; (restrain).

Crosswords: Impeach

Books

• Impeach Justice Douglas (reference)

• Impeach Screech! (Saved by the Bell, No 8) (reference)

• Impeach the Anti-Christ (reference)

  (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Civil Liberties

Malawi

In May a journalist, a printer, and four newspaper vendors were arrested for distributing an edition of The Dispatch newspaper, which contained articles that the Government stated would "cause public fear and alarm." The paper reported on a plot to impeach President Muluzi and allegations of government corruption made by the opposition. (references)

Economic History

Paraguay

In August 2001, the lower house of Congress considered but did not pass a motion to impeach Gonzalez Macchi for alleged corruption and inefficient governance. (references)

Paraguay

In this tense atmosphere, the murder of Vice President and long-time Oviedo rival Luis Maria Argana on March 23, 1999, led the Chamber of Deputies to impeach Cubas the next day. (references)

Human Rights

Malawi

On November 2, members of the UDF ruling party submitted motions in the National Assembly to impeach three High Court justices on allegations of judicial misconduct and incompetence. (references)

Political Economy

Azerbaijan

The Constitution established a system of government based on a division of powers among a strong presidency, a legislature with the power to approve the budget and impeach the President, and an independent judiciary. (references)

Indonesia

Political opposition to Wahid -- in the form of a parliamentary move to impeach him -- gained momentum May 30, 2001, when the DPR decided that the MPR would hold a Special Session to hear (and vote on) the president's accountability speech on August 1, 2001. Wahid was defiant and adamant that the MPR had no authority to hold a Special Session on his accountability. (references)

Political Rights

Poland

Parliament may impeach the President. (references)

Zimbabwe

In October 2000, the MDC brought a motion to Parliament to impeach President Mugabe for violating the Constitution and for gross misconduct. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Expression using "impeach": impeach of smth.. Additional references.

Albanian

vë në dyshim (challenge, dispute, impugn, question), gjykoj (adjudge, adjudicate, arbitrate, consider, damn, daresay, denounce, judge, look in the matter, reason, referee, think about, try, umpire), akuzoj (accuse, arraign, book, charge, criminate, incriminate, indict, inform, inform against). (various references)

Arabic 

‏إتهم موظف دولة, ‏أقام دعوة, ‏شكك (call in question, hesitate, misbelieve, query, question). (various references)

Bulgarian 

хвърлям сянка върху (reflect on), обвинявам (accuse, arraign, charge, lay, taunt), поставям под съмнение (call in question, challenge, impugn, oppugn, question), дискредитирам (blow on, discredit, explode, sully). (various references)

Chinese 

劾 , 抨 (attack), 彈劾 , 彈 (ball, bullet, crossball, shell, shot, to play, to pluck a string), 弹劾 (Impeached, Impeaching, impeachment). (various references)

Czech

odmítnout (decline, deny, kill, rebuff, refuse, reject, renege, repel, repudiate, repulse, snub, turn down, wave aside), obvinit (accuse, condemn, delate, incriminate, inculpate, indict, lay up blame, tax), obžalovat (accuse, arraign, present). (various references)

Dutch

beschuldigen van (accuse of, charge with, impeach of, indict for, tax with). (various references)

Esperanto

kulpigi pri (accuse of, charge with, impeach of, indict for, tax with), akuzi pri (accuse of, charge with, impeach of, indict for, tax with). (various references)

Finnish

asettaa syytteeseen valtakunnanoikeudessa. (various references)

French

reprocher, recourir � la justice, récuser, mettre en accusation, douter, accuser. (various references)

German

anklagen (accusations, accuse, blame, charge, condemn, denouncements, impeachments, indict, indictments, level a charge against, prosecute, to accuse, to indict). (various references)

Greek 

καταγγέλω (denounce, indict), απαγγέλλω κατηγορικά. (various references)

Hungarian

kétségbe von (discredit, impugn, query, to challenge, to contest, to discredit, to dispute), felelõsségre von (challenge), bevádol (arraign, to arraign, to impeach). (various references)

Icelandic

kæra (accuse, accuse of, charge with, impeach of, indict for, tax with), ásaka um (accuse of, charge with, impeach of, indict for, tax with), ásaka fyrir (accuse of, charge with, impeach of, indict for, tax with), ásaka (accuse, accuse of, charge with, impeach of, indict for, tax with). (various references)

Indonesian

menuduh (accuse, arraign). (various references)

Italian

imputare (accuse, ascribe, impute), denunziare (delate, denounce, indicate, report), accusare (accuse, arraign, article, bid, charge, indict, tax). (various references)

Korean 

규탄하십시�". (various references)

Manx

cassid (charge with crime, reprimand). (various references)

Pig Latin

impeachay.(various references)

Portuguese

pôr em dúvida (bring into question, call in question, query), criticar (animadvert, assail, attack, carp, censure, clapperclaw, comment, complain, criticize, faultfinder, knock about, land on, review, slash, vet), contestar (challenge, contest, contradict, controvert, disprove, dispute, impugn, object, question), comprometer-se (engage), censurar (admonish, animadvert, berate, blame, carp, censor, censoring, censure, chide, condemn, damn, deprecate, expostulate, find fault with, glossal, inculpation, inveigh, jaw, land on, lecture, lesson, Nicaragua, objurgate, quarrel, rebuke, red pencil, reprehend, reproach, reprove, scold, sermonize, snub, twit, upbraid, vituperate), acusar (accuse, acknowledge, blame, charge, complain, incriminate, inculpate, indict, libel, make an accusation, own a car, reproach). (various references)

Romanian

suspecta (impugn, mistrust, suspect), pune sub acuzare, pune la îndoialã (arraign, call in question, question), acuza (accuse, arraign, article, bring a charge, charge, crime, criminate, inculpate, reprehend, swear). (various references)

Russian 

обвинять (accuse, arraign, charge, delate, incriminate, inculpate, inform against), брать под сомнение (throw doubt upon). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

izvesti na sud zbog veleizdaje, zadržati (delay, detain, dwell, hold back, hold down, keep, keep back, reserve, restrain, retain, stem, stop, withhold), sprečiti (arrest, avert, balk, baulk, debar, disenable, forestall, head off, hinder, impede, inhibit, keep from, preclude, prevent, scotch), pobijati (impugn, negative, oppugn), okriviti (accuse, blame, charge, incriminate, inculpate). (various references)

Spanish

tachar algo (blot out, blue pencil, cut out, mark off, strike through), someter (bow, bring under, put, put through, subject, submit), procesar (compute, fabricate, indict, process, prosecute, tool, try, work), censurar (animadvert, blame, blue pencil, censor, censure, condemn, criticize, decry, deprecate, dispraise, rebuke, reproach, reprove, scold, take up, talk down, talk out, talk through, view), acusar de traición. (various references)

Swedish

anklaga (accuse, arraign, charge, incriminate, inculpate, indict, tag, tax, try). (various references)

Turkish

itham etmek (accuse, charge, criminate, delate, impute), suçlamak (accuse, arraign, blame, bring an accusation against smb., censure, charge, charge smb. with smth., chastise, condemn, criminate, excoriate, impute, incriminate, inculpate, indict, put in the dock, put the blame on smb., reproach, task, tax), mahkemeye vermek (arraign, Sue, take out a summons against smb.), şüphelenmek (be doubtful of, be in doubt about, suspect). (various references)

Ukranian 

сумніватися (demur, dispute, distrust, doubt, empeach, hesitate, question, scruple), осуджувати (animadvert, criticize, damn, denounce, disapprove, disfavor, disfavour, dispraise, judge, reprehend, reprobate, reprove), заважати (baffle, balk, clog, cut across, embar, embarrass, empeach, hinder, incommode, interfere, obscure, obstruct, preclude, prohibit). (various references)

in-, postulo. (various references)

impedicare. (various references)

empeechier. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "impeach": impeachable, impeached, impeaches, impeaching, impeachment, impeachments. (additional references)

Words containing "impeach": unimpeachable, unimpeachably. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Impeach" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: empacho, ibmspeak, impack, impak, impec, impeech, impreach, Miebach, Nimtech, Timepac. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: haemic.

-2 letters: amice, campi, champ, chape, cheap, chime, chimp, hemic, mache, miche, peach.

-3 letters: ache, acme, ahem, amie, came, camp, cape, caph, cham, chap, chia, chip, each, emic, epha, epic, haem, hame, heap, hemp, mace, mach, mica, mice, pace, pech, pica, pice, pima.

-4 letters: ace, aim, ami, amp, ape, cam, cap, cep, chi, hae, ham, hap, hem, hep, hic, hie, him, hip, ice, ich, imp, mac, mae, map, pac, pah, pam, pea, pec, peh, phi, pia, pic, pie.

-5 letters: ae, ah, ai, am, eh, em, ha, he, hi, hm, ma, me, mi, pa, pe, pi.

+1 letter: camphine, camphire, empathic, emphatic.

+2 letters: camphines, camphires, graphemic, impeached, impeaches.

+3 letters: alphameric, amphimacer, amphoteric, apothecium, championed, chimpanzee, empathetic, graphemics, hermatypic, hypermanic, impeaching, megaphonic, metaphoric, metaphysic, microphage, mispatched, mispatches, pharmacies, phlegmatic, phonematic, unemphatic.

+4 letters: amphimacers, atmospheric, champerties, chimpanzees, comradeship, demographic, epithalamic, hemophiliac, homeopathic, hypokalemic, impeachable, impeachment, metamorphic, metanephric, metaphysics, microphages, mycophagies, myelopathic, nonemphatic, sympathetic.

+5 letters: accomplished, accomplisher, accomplishes, alphanumeric, amphisbaenic, apothegmatic, archesporium, atmospherics, comradeships, demographics, empathically, emphatically, exophthalmic, gametophytic, hemophiliacs, hypocalcemia, hypocalcemic, hypoglycemia, impeachments, metaphorical, metaphysical, microcephaly, micrographed, overemphatic, paedomorphic, pharmacopeia, phonemically, polycythemia, scyphistomae, sympathetics.

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