Implore vs Impeach - What's the difference?
implore | impeach |
To beg urgently or earnestly.
* Shakespeare
To call upon or pray to earnestly; to entreat.
* Alexander Pope
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.
As verbs the difference between implore and impeach
is that implore is while impeach is to hinder, impede, or prevent.implore
English
Verb
(implor)- I kneel, and then implore her blessing.
- Imploring all the gods that reign above.
Synonyms
* entreatimpeach
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.