Definitions for impeachment

impeachment im·peach·ment

Spelling: [im-peech-muh nt]
IPA: /ɪmˈpitʃ mənt/

Impeachment is a 11 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 22 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 26 points.

You can make 700 anagrams from letters in impeachment (aceehimmnpt).

Definitions for impeachment

noun

  1. the impeaching of a public official before an appropriate tribunal.
  2. (in Congress or a state legislature) the presentation of formal charges against a public official by the lower house, trial to be before the upper house.
  3. demonstration that a witness is less worthy of belief.
  4. the act of impeaching.
  5. the state of being impeached.

Origin of impeachment

1350-1400; Middle English empechement Anglo-French. See impeach, -ment

Examples for impeachment

“impeachment is a riveting event in the history of the country,” Kucinich says.

But an absence of niceties nor an unwillingness to conform is not a legitimate cause for impeachment.

Forty years after Richard Nixon resigned from office, talk of impeachment is once again in the air.

Moreover, without any credible justification, they have even gone so far as to call for impeachment proceedings against him.

He admitted the impeachment in the midst of his astonishment with an abruptness equal to her own.

That fat fool Albemarle had swallowed my impeachment like a draught of muscadine.

The Commons insisted on carrying his impeachment to the bar of the Lords.

Republican leaders today are doing the same thing, using the media to tell their members there will be no impeachment.

"Ah, no," she pleaded—she knew how true was the impeachment.

In the Andrew Johnson impeachment case was it not better that things were as they were?

Word Value for impeachment
Scrable

22

Words with friends

26

Similar words for impeachment
Word of the day