Instruct vs Impeach - What's the difference?
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(label) to teach by giving instructions
(label) to direct; to order (usage note : "instruct" is less forceful than "order", but weightier than "advise")
(label) arranged; furnished; provided
* Chapman
(label) instructed; taught; enlightened
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.
Instruct is a related term of impeach.
As verbs the difference between instruct and impeach
is that instruct is (label) to teach by giving instructions while impeach is to hinder, impede, or prevent.As a noun instruct
is (label) instruction.As an adjective instruct
is (label) arranged; furnished; provided.instruct
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impeach
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(es)- These ungracious practices of his sons did impeach his journey to the Holy Land.
- A defluxion on my throat impeached my utterance.