impeach

impeach is a 7-letter English word with 8 senses as transitive verb, noun, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To hinder; to impede; to prevent. Face value is 16 in Scrabble and 18 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

7 letters · Scrabble 16 · Words With Friends 18 · 8 senses

Definitions

1. transitive verb. To hinder; to impede; to prevent.
2. transitive verb. To charge with a crime or misdemeanor; to accuse; especially to charge (a public officer), before a competent tribunal, with misbehavior in office; to cite before a tribunal for judgement of official misconduct; to arraign; as, to impeach a judge. See Impeachment.
3. transitive verb. Hence, to charge with impropriety; to dishonor; to bring discredit on; to call in question; as, to impeach one's motives or conduct.
4. transitive verb. To challenge or discredit the credibility of, as of a witness, or the validity of, as of commercial paper.
5. noun. Hindrance; impeachment.
6. verb. bring an accusation against; level a charge against

   "The neighbors accused the man of spousal abuse"

   Synonyms: accuse, criminate, incriminate

7. verb. charge (a public official) with an offense or misdemeanor committed while in office

   "The President was impeached"

8. verb. challenge the honesty or veracity of

   "the lawyers tried to impeach the credibility of the witnesses"

Synonyms

accuse, criminate, incriminate

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in impeach:

aphemic

Common word forms

impeached, impeacher, impeaches, impeaching, impeachable, impeachment

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