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If a government official is impeached, a special government body formally charges them with a serious crime or a serious abuse of power. The person is not automatically out of the job: impeachment is the charge, like sending someone to a special trial. In the United States this is the word you hear about presidents and judges; other countries have their own rules. It is a formal news-and-law word. Though actually, among lawyers you can also impeach a witness or impeach someone’s honesty, meaning you try to show they should not be believed. That older “call into question” sense is still alive in court. And being impeached is not the same as being found guilty or removed.
組成From Middle English empechen, from Anglo-Norman empecher / Old French empeechier (“to hinder”), from Latin impedicare (“to fetter”). Cognate with French empêcher (“to prevent”). The legal “bring a charge” sense grew from “hinder / accuse”.
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以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
impeachverb/ɪmˈpiːt͡ʃ/
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To hinder, impede, or prevent.
- These ungracious practices of his sons did impeach his journey to the Holy Land.
- I was afraid the same defluxion of Salt Rheum which fell from my Temples into my Throat in Oxford, and distilling upon the Uvula, impeached my Utterance a little to this Day
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To bring a legal proceeding against a public official.
- President Clinton was impeached by the House in November 1998, but since the Senate acquitted him, he was not removed from office.
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To charge with impropriety; to discredit; to call into question.
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lawTo demonstrate in court that a testimony under oath contradicts another testimony from the same person, usually one taken during deposition.
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