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Impeachment vs Depose - What's the difference?

impeachment | depose |

As a noun impeachment

is the act of impeaching a public official, either elected or appointed, before a tribunal charged with determining the facts of the matter.

As a verb depose is

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impeachment

English

Alternative forms

* empeachment (obsolete)

Noun

(wikipedia impeachment) (en noun)
  • The act of impeaching a public official, either elected or appointed, before a tribunal charged with determining the facts of the matter
  • the state of being impeached
  • a demonstration in a court of law, or before another finder of fact, that a witness was ingenuine before, and therefore, is less likely to tell the truth now
  • (obsolete) Hindrance; impediment; obstruction.
  • * Shakespeare
  • Willing to march on to Calais, / Without impeachment .

    depose

    English

    Verb

    (depos)
  • (literally) To put down; to lay down; to deposit; to lay aside; to put away.
  • * Woodword
  • additional mud deposed upon it
  • To remove (a leader) from (high) office, without killing the incumbent.
  • A deposed monarch may go into exile as pretender to the lost throne, hoping to be restored in a subsequent revolution.
  • * Prynne
  • a tyrant over his subjects, and therefore worthy to be deposed
  • (legal) To give evidence or testimony, especially in response to interrogation during a deposition
  • (legal) To interrogate and elicit testimony from during a deposition; typically done by a lawyer.
  • After we deposed the claimant we had enough evidence to avoid a trial.
  • * Shakespeare
  • Depose him in the justice of his cause.
  • To take or swear an oath.
  • To testify; to bear witness; to claim; to assert; to affirm.
  • * Francis Bacon
  • to depose the yearly rent or valuation of lands

    Synonyms

    * declare

    Antonyms

    * restore

    Derived terms

    * deposable * deposal

    Anagrams

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