Impeach vs Convict - What's the difference?
impeach | convict |
To hinder, impede, or prevent.
* Sir J. Davies
* Howell
To bring a legal proceeding against a public official, asserting that because he or she committed some offense, he or she should be removed from office.
* President Clinton was impeached by the House in November 1999, but since the Senate acquitted him, he was not removed from office.
To charge with impropriety; to discredit; to call into question.
(legal) To demonstrate in court that a testimony under oath contradicts another testimony from the same person, usually one taken during deposition.
To find guilty
# as a result of legal proceedings, about of a crime
# informally, notably in a moral sense; said about both perpetrator and act.
(legal) A person convicted of a crime by a judicial body.
A person deported to a penal colony.
A common name for the sheepshead (Archosargus probatocephalus), owing to its black and stripes.
In legal|lang=en terms the difference between impeach and convict
is that impeach is (legal) to demonstrate in court that a testimony under oath contradicts another testimony from the same person, usually one taken during deposition while convict is (legal) a person convicted of a crime by a judicial body.As verbs the difference between impeach and convict
is that impeach is to hinder, impede, or prevent while convict is to find guilty.As a noun convict is
(legal) a person convicted of a crime by a judicial body.impeach
English
Verb
(es)- These ungracious practices of his sons did impeach his journey to the Holy Land.
- A defluxion on my throat impeached my utterance.
