impeach.
To hinder, impede, or prevent.
Meaning & usage
To hinder, impede, or prevent.
To bring a legal proceeding against a public official.
President Clinton was impeached by the House in November 1998, but since the Senate acquitted him, he was not removed from office.
To charge with impropriety; to discredit; to call into question.
To demonstrate in court that a testimony under oath contradicts another testimony from the same person, usually one taken during deposition.
Where this word comes from
From Middle English empechen, borrowed from Anglo-Norman empecher, from Old French empeechier (“to hinder”), from Latin impedicāre (“to fetter”). Cognate with French empêcher (“to prevent”).
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