impeach
verb (used with object)
to accuse (a public official) before an appropriate tribunal of misconduct in office.
had impeached
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past perfectof impeach.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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The House had impeached Chase, a Marylander, on seven articles of misconduct and one article of rudeness.
From The New Yorker ● Oct. 21, 2019
Now, the House of Representatives had impeached Johnson for high crimes and misdemeanors, and Stevens was a House prosecutor at his Senate trial.
From Washington Post ● May 16, 2018
The Missouri House had impeached him after the State Supreme Court had denied Governor Henry Stewart Caulfield the power to remove him from office.
From Time Magazine Archive
Just after the Long trial started last week in the Louisiana Senate, 15 Senators agreed that the proceedings were technically illegal and unconstitutional because the House had impeached Gov.
From Time Magazine Archive
Walpole had impeached the hand, and Lord Coningsby impeached the head; Walpole had impeached the clerk, and Coningsby impeached the justice; Walpole had impeached the scholar, and Coningsby impeached the master.
From A History of the Four Georges, Volume I by Justin McCarthy
