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impeach as in:  impeach the President

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The President was impeached.
impeached = formally charged with unlawful activity
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    In Maine he is elected Governor by the largest majority in the history of the state and returned to office three times, where he alienates political friends by refusing to agree to the impeachment of Andrew Johnson.  (source)
    impeachment = formally charging with illegal action
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    Judges have a lifetime appointment and can be impeached and removed from office.  (source)
    impeached = formally accused of wrongdoing
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    He dodged impeachment but was not reelected to office in 1868.  (source)
    impeachment = formal process of removal from office because of misconduct

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    And here is as great an adventure as ever I heard of, and here, if we turn back, no tittle impeachment of all our honours.†  (source)
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    Here, Montaigne quoted an array of unimpeachable authorities from the Golden Age who confirmed conclusively that sadness is an emotion best shared.†  (source)
    unimpeachable = not capable of being formally charged
    standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unimpeachable means not and reverses the meaning of impeachable. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
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    The Senate shall have the sole Power to try all Impeachments.†  (source)
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    Why can't they impeach him?" said Debby LaRocca.†  (source)
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    The ego you seek, that essential 'you' which you cannot express or define, is not your emotions or inarticulate dreams, but your intellect, that judge of your supreme tribunal whom you've impeached in order to drift at the mercy of any stray shyster you describe as your 'feeling.'†  (source)
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    The U.S. Supreme Court has long required that the prosecution disclose to the defendant anything that is exculpatory or that may be helpful to the defendant in impeaching a witness.†  (source)
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    Legislative: Senate: Number 65 —House Impeaches, Senate Tries†  (source)
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    Joseph Smith Fowler of Tennessee, like Ross, Henderson, and Van Winkle a freshman Senator, at first thought the President impeachable.†  (source)
    standard suffix: The suffix "-able" means able to be. This is the same pattern you see in words like breakable, understandable, and comfortable.
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    She looked at me and smiled widely, and such a wide smile on her narrow face might have looked goofy were it not for the unimpeachably elegant green in her eyes.†  (source)
    unimpeachably = done in a manner that immunizes against formal charges
    standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unimpeachably means not and reverses the meaning of impeachably. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
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    'Of course,' said Mr Merdle, 'there must be the strictest integrity and uprightness in these transactions; there must be the purest faith between man and man; there must be unimpeached and unimpeachable confidence; or business could not be carried on.'†  (source)
    unimpeached = not formally charged or found guilty
    standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unimpeached means not and reverses the meaning of impeached. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
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impeach as in:  impeach her honesty

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    She impeached his integrity with questioning about the forged documents.
    impeached = seriously questioned
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    If my old friend Reepicheep the Mouse were here, he would say we could not now refuse the adventures of Bism without a great impeachment to our honour.  (source)
    impeachment = criticism (of character)
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    The peddler had certainly spoken the truth when he declared that the dye wouldn't wash off, however his veracity might be impeached in other respects.  (source)
    impeached = seriously questioned
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    And here I stand, both to impeach and purge Myself condemned and myself excus'd.  (source)
    impeach = criticize
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    They are square, neat boxes with wooden sides all round, and have unimpeachably satisfactory seats.  (source)
    unimpeachably = in a way that cannot be challenged
    standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unimpeachably means not and reverses the meaning of impeachably. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
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    "That is Mr. Baggins, a hobbit of good family and unimpeachable reputation," said Gandalf.  (source)
    unimpeachable = not capable of being criticized
    standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unimpeachable means not and reverses the meaning of impeachable. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
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    It was her custom to be helpless. They complained. Upon which impeachment of what to her was her most essential sex-prerogative, she made their lives unendurable.  (source)
    impeachment = criticism (of character)
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