[ɪmˈpiːtʃ], (Verb)

Definitions:
- (especially in the US) charge (the holder of a public office) with misconduct
(e.g: the governor served only one year before being impeached and convicted for fiscal fraud)

- call into question the integrity or validity of (a practice)
(e.g: there is no desire to impeach the privileges of the House of Commons)


Phrases:

Origin:
late Middle English (also in the sense ‘hinder, prevent’; earlier as empeche): from Old French empecher ‘impede’, from late Latin impedicare ‘catch, entangle’ (based on pedica ‘a fetter’, from pes, ped- ‘foot’). Compare with impede