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Definitions: Impeach |
ImpeachVerb1. 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) |
| Domain | Definitions |
Law | The credibility of a witness. A party cannot -- the credit of a witness produced by himself but he . =may prove by others the contrary of what such witness has stated. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonyms: ImpeachSynonyms: accuse (v), criminate (v), incriminate (v). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
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). |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Impeach |
| English words defined with "impeach": Appeach ♦ Empeach ♦ Impeached, Impeaching, Implead ♦ Peremptory plea. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "impeach": Selling the Pass ♦ TO BLOW THE GAB. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "impeach": Empeach. (references) |
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| Author | Quotation |
Senator George Aiken | May I now pass on to this Congress advice which I received recently from a fellow Vermonter -- Either impeach him or get off his back. |
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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. | ||
| "Impeach" is generally used as a lexical verb (infinitive) -- approximately 96.15% of the time. "Impeach" is used about 26 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 96.15% | 25 | 69,787 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 3.85% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 26 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "impeach": impeach of smth.. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
bush impeach | 329 |
impeach | 41 |
davis gray impeach | 25 |
impeach george bush | 24 |
davis impeach | 12 |
impeach george w bush | 10 |
impeach clinton | 9 |
impeach president bush | 9 |
impeach vote | 8 |
davis grey impeach | 6 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "impeach"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
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) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | in-, postulo. (various references) |
| Late Latin | 300-700 | impedicare. (various references) |
| Old French | 900-1400 | empeechier. (various references) |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "impeach": impeachable, impeached, impeaches, impeaching, impeachment, impeachments. (additional references) | |
Words containing "impeach": unimpeachable, unimpeachably. (additional references) | |
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"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, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "impeach" (pronounced i'mpē"kh) |
| 3 | -p ē" kh | peach, speech. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-e-h-i-m-p" | |
-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. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-e-h-i-m-p" | |
+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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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)49 6D 70 65 61 63 68 |
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references).. -- .--. . .- -.-. .... |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001001 01101101 01110000 01100101 01100001 01100011 01101000 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)I m p e a c h |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0049 006D 0070 0065 0061 0063 0068 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)43798271676974 |
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