Impeach vs Exonerate - What's the difference?
impeach | exonerate |
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 relieve (someone or something) of a load; to unburden (a load).
(obsolete, reflexive) Of a body of water, to discharge (oneself), empty oneself.
*, II.ii.3:
To free from an obligation, responsibility or task.
To free from accusation or blame.
As verbs the difference between impeach and exonerate
is that impeach is to hinder, impede, or prevent while exonerate is to relieve (someone or something) of a load; to unburden (a load).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.
Derived terms
* impeachmentexonerate
English
Verb
(exonerat)- I would examine the Caspian Sea, and see where and how it exonerates itself, after it hath taken in Volga, Iaxartes, Oxus, and those great rivers; at the mouth of Obi, or where?
