noun

• 1(especially in the US) a charge of misconduct made against the holder of a public office.

  ‘the president is facing impeachment over the scandal’

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  • ‘all impeachments shall be tried by the Senate’
  • ‘Other presidents did worse and there were no exposes or impeachments.’
  • ‘He finally resigned in order to avoid impeachment.’
  • ‘The two men were warned by the government that they faced impeachment if they didn't step down.’
  • ‘The impeachment of any president is highly unusual.’
  • ‘Under the Constitution, impeachments are brought by the House of Representatives and tried by the Senate.’
  • ‘He has threatened to call for the impeachment of the president.’
  • ‘It led to the impeachment of the state's attorney general and auditor and conviction of the Treasurer.’
  • ‘Impeachment of a democratically elected leader should be employed only as a last resort.’
  • ‘The panel considering impeachment heard from its first witnesses today, some of whom criticized the governor's conduct in years past.’
  • ‘The president was facing impeachment.’

  1. 1.1historical A charge of treason or another crime against the state.
     ‘the king cynically abandoned him, encouraging his impeachment’
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     • ‘The impeachment failed despite his apparent guilt on some of the charges.’
     • ‘Under impeachment he was confined in the Tower from 1679 to 1684.’
     • ‘Impeachment by Parliament led to his banishment and murder at sea.’
     • ‘Royal pardons were not to be issued against impeachments.’
     • ‘They escaped impeachment only by making a very large loan to the Parliament at a crucial stage.’

• 2The action of calling into question the integrity or validity of something.

  ‘the prosecutor's detailed impeachment of the character witness’

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  • ‘He called for the impeachment of him and other members of the court.’
  • ‘It may bring a motion of impeachment.’
  • ‘The impeachment was spawned by an accusation by his estranged drinking and gambling buddy.’
  • ‘It did not really occur to them that a speaker might rise to become the ultimate beneficiary on the impeachment of the governor and his deputy.’
  • ‘It is not clear what resulted from the demands for impeachment of the union leadership.’
  • ‘The first part of his letter was a palpable impeachment of the ministry.’
  • ‘He called for the impeachment of the Supreme Court justices.’
  • ‘They found that a prosecutor's detailed, negative impeachment of the character witness outweighed that of the witness's positive character evidence.’
  • ‘Their three colleagues now urged them to resign to avoid the impeachment which seemed destined otherwise to follow.’
  • ‘There has been for some time evidence available sufficient to warrant impeachment on each of these grounds.’