Definitions
Formal process of charging a public official with misconduct.
Word origin
Old French empechier, empeechier and empescher (compare modern French empêcher) are derived from Late Latin impedicāre (“to catch; to entangle”), present active infinitive of Latin impedicō (“to entangle; to fetter”), from im- (variant of in-) + pedica (“fetter, shackle; snare, trap”) (from pēs (“foot”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ped- (“to step, walk; to fall, stumble”)) + -ō.
Used in a sentence
“And here is as great an adventure as ever I heard of, and here, if we turn back, no little impeachment of all our honours.”
“Backed by the Treasurer's bitterest enemies he brought charges against Danby. Impeachment followed. There was fresh uproar in the House.”
“In Juazeiro do Norte, demonstrators cornered the mayor inside a bank for hours and called for his impeachment, while thousands of others protested teachers’ salaries.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
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01“Formal charge process”11 letters
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