| 单词 | impeach |
| 释义 | impeach (once / 953 pages) v Impeach means to charge someone with doing something wrong, specifically a high government official, such as the US president, a senator, or a Federal judge. Fortunately, very few presidents have had the dishonor of being impeached. Impeach comes from the Latin impedicare "catch, entangle." If you can remember that impeach is closely related to impede, which means to slow or hinder, all you have to think of is, "Stop, thief!" to remember that impeach has to do with crime and not with stone fruit. WORD FAMILYimpeach: impeachability, impeached, impeaches, impeaching, impeachment, unimpeachable+/impeachment: impeachments/unimpeachable: unimpeachably USAGE EXAMPLESSouth Korea’s Parliament voted on Dec. 9 to impeach President Park Geun-hye over a corruption scandal. New York Times(Jan 02, 2017) Park was impeached by parliament early last year, a decision that must be upheld or rejected by the Constitutional Court. Reuters(Jan 02, 2017) She is suspended from power while the Constitutional Court considers whether the parliamentary motion to impeach her was constitutional. Washington Post(Jan 01, 2017) 1v bring an accusation against; level a charge against Syn|Hypo|Hyper accuse, criminate, incriminate reproach, upbraid express criticism towards arraignaccuse of a wrong or an inadequacy recriminatereturn an accusation against someone or engage in mutual accusations; charge in return charge, file, lodgefile a formal charge against accuse, charge blame for, make a claim of wrongdoing or misbehavior against 2v charge (a public official) with an offense or misdemeanor committed while in office The President was impeached Hyper charge, file, lodge file a formal charge against 3v challenge the honesty or veracity of the lawyers tried to impeach the credibility of the witnesses Hyper challenge issue a challenge to |
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