impeach
verb
[ ɪmˈpiːtʃ ]
• (especially in the US) charge (the holder of a public office) with misconduct.
Similar:
indict,
charge,
accuse,
bring a charge against,
bring a case against,
lay charges against,
prefer charges against,
arraign,
take to court,
put on trial,
bring to trial,
prosecute,
have the law on,
• call into question the integrity or validity of (a practice).
• "there is no desire to impeach the privileges of the House of Commons"
Origin:
late Middle English (also in the sense ‘hinder, prevent’; earlier as empeche ): from Old French empecher ‘impede’, from late Latin impedicare ‘catch, entangle’ (based on pedica ‘a fetter’, from pes, ped- ‘foot’). Compare with impede.
