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say it: im-PEECH
impeach is a verb meaning "challenge the honesty or veracity of". It carries 3 recorded senses.
challenge the honesty or veracity of
“the lawyers tried to impeach the credibility of the witnesses”
charge (a public official) with an offense or misdemeanor committed while in office
“The President was impeached”
bring an accusation against; level a charge against
“The neighbors accused the man of spousal abuse”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for impeach come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.