impeach
verb (used with object)
to accuse (a public official) before an appropriate tribunal of misconduct in office.
impeacher
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a word derived from
impeach.
Example Sentences
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Last week Bermuda was shaken by a hurricane of another kind as the result of a speech in the U. S. House of Representatives by Pennsylvania's loose-tongued Louis Thomas McFadden, impeacher of Herbert Hoover.
From Time Magazine Archive
When Congress met in December, 1866, Representative James M. Ashley, of the Toledo district of Ohio, commenced operations as chief impeacher of President Johnson.
From Perley's Reminiscences, v. 1-2 of Sixty Years in the National Metropolis by Benjamin Perley Poore
There is now no place," replied he, "for an impeacher of the Gods.
From The Twilight of the Gods, and Other Tales by Richard Garnett
Has there been any change for the better since the great impeacher of Warren Hastings went to his grave?
From From Egypt to Japan by Henry M. (Henry Martyn) Field
A man of the lightest mental calibre and most insufficient capacity, he constituted himself the chief impeacher, and assumed a position that should have been held by a strong-nerved, deep-sighted, able man.
From Perley's Reminiscences, v. 1-2 of Sixty Years in the National Metropolis by Benjamin Perley Poore
