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verb (used with object)
1.
to accuse (a public official) before an appropriate tribunal of misconduct in office.
2.
Chiefly Law. to challenge the credibility of: to impeach a witness.
3.
to bring an accusation against.
4.
to call in question; cast an imputation upon: to impeach a person's motives.
5.
to call to account.
noun
6.
Obsolete. impeachment.
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Impeaching
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Origin:
1350–1400; Middle English empechen, enpeshen < Anglo-French empecher < Late Latin impedicāre to fetter, trap, equivalent to Latin im- im-1 + pedic(a) a fetter (derivative of pēs foot) + -ā- thematic vowel + -re infinitive suffix
1350–1400; Middle English empechen, enpeshen < Anglo-French empecher < Late Latin impedicāre to fetter, trap, equivalent to Latin im- im-1 + pedic(a) a fetter (derivative of pēs foot) + -ā- thematic vowel + -re infinitive suffix
Related forms
im·peach·er, noun
un·im·peached, adjective
Synonyms
4. question, challenge, impugn.
4. question, challenge, impugn.
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Word Origin & History
impeach
c.1380, "to impede, hinder, prevent," from Anglo-Fr. empecher, from O.Fr. empeechier "hinder" (12c.), from L.L. impedicare "to fetter, catch, entangle," from L. in- "in" + pedica "shackle," from pes (gen. pedis) "foot." Sense of "accuse a public officer of misconduct" first recorded 1568, via confusion
EXPANDwith L. impetere "attack, accuse."
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