impeach

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1. impeach - Noun

2. impeach - Verb

Meaning

To hinder; to impede; to prevent.

To charge with a crime or misdemeanor; to accuse; especially to charge (a public officer), before a competent tribunal, with misbehavior in office; to cite before a tribunal for judgement of official misconduct; to arraign; as, to impeach a judge. See Impeachment.

Hence, to charge with impropriety; to dishonor; to bring discredit on; to call in question; as, to impeach one's motives or conduct.

To challenge or discredit the credibility of, as of a witness, or the validity of, as of commercial paper.

Hindrance; impeachment.

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Little boldness is needed to assail the opinions and practices of notoriously wicked men; but to rebuke great and good men for their conduct, and to impeach their discernment, is the highest effort of moral courage. William Lloyd Garrison

The Democrats' plan for 2006? Take the House and Senate and impeach the president. With our nation at war, is this the kind of Congress you want? Ken Mehlman

In 2010 and 2012, I won the Democratic nomination in the 22nd Congressional District on the program 'Save NASA Impeach Obama,' without any organizational or financial backing from the party. Kesha Rogers

[President Nixon], in the face of a vote to impeach he might try, as "commander-in-chief", to use military forces to keep himself in power. Carl Rowan

Johnson: Well, they'd impeach a president, though, that would run out, wouldn't they? Lyndon B. Johnson

The neighbors accused the man of spousal abuse Source: Internet

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