Impeached vs Impeachment - What's the difference?
impeached | impeachment |
(impeach)
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.
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
As a verb impeached
is (impeach).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.impeached
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Verb
(head)impeach
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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
* impeachmentimpeachment
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Alternative forms
* empeachment (obsolete)Noun
(wikipedia impeachment) (en noun)- Willing to march on to Calais, / Without impeachment .