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Definition impeachment

Etymology

From Middle English empechement (“hindrance, impediment, obstacle, obstruction; legal accusation or charge; act of calling into question or discrediting; challenge to a claim or right”), and thence either:

The English word is analysable as impeach +‎ -ment.

Old French empechier, empeechier and empescher (compare modern French empêcher) are derived from Late Latin impedic?re (“to catch; to entangle”), present active infinitive of Latin impedic? (“to entangle; to fetter”), from im- (variant of in-) + pedica (“fetter, shackle; snare, trap”) (from p?s (“foot”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ped- (“to step, walk; to fall, stumble”)) + -?.

In senses 1.2 (“accusation that a person has committed a crime”) and 1.3 (“act of impeaching or charging a public official with misconduct”), the word has been used in place of Latin impetere, the present active infinitive of impet? (“to assail, attack, rush upon”).

Noun

impeachment (countable and uncountable, plural impeachments)

1. (countable) The act of calling into question or challenging the accuracy or propriety of something.
   1. (countable, law) A demonstration in a court of law, or before another finder of fact, that a witness was ingenuine before, and is therefore less likely to tell the truth now.
   2. (countable, law, Britain) An accusation that a person has committed a crime against the state, such as treason.
   3. (countable, law, chiefly US) The act of impeaching or charging a public official with misconduct, especially if serious, often with the aim of having the official dismissed from office.
2. (uncountable) The state of being impeached.
3. (uncountable, archaic) Hindrance; impediment; obstruction.

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