impeachment

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• /ɪmˈpiːt͡ʃ.mənt/
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From Middle English empechement (“hindrance, impediment, obstacle, obstruction; legal accusation or charge; act of calling into question or discrediting; challenge to a claim or right”), and thence either: * from Middle English empechen, empeschen, empesche, enpechen, impechen (“to cause to get stuck; of a ship: to run aground; to block, obstruct; to hinder, impede; to prevent; to interfere with, harm; to criticize, disparage; to bring charges against; to formally accuse of treason or another high crime”) (from Anglo-Norman empecher, Old French empechier, empeechier) + -ment (suffix forming action nouns, concrete nouns, and nouns indicating a result or a condition or state); or * from Old French empechement, empeechement, empeschement (“obstacle”) (modern French empêchement (“impediment, obstacle”)), from empeechier (“to fetter; to hinder”), empescher (“to inhibit, prevent”) + -ment (suffix forming nouns from verbs). The English word is analysable as impeach + -ment. Old French empechier, empeechier and empescher (compare modern French empêcher) are derived from Late Latin impedicāre (“to catch; to entangle”), present active infinitive of Latin impedicō (“to entangle; to fetter”), from im- (variant of in-) + pedica (“fetter, shackle; snare, trap”) (from pēs (“foot”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ped- (“to step, walk; to fall, stumble”)) + -ō. In senses 1.2 (“accusation that a person has committed a crime”) and 1.3 (“act of impeaching or charging a public official with misconduct”), the word has been used in place of Latin impetere, the present active infinitive of impetō (“to assail, attack, rush upon”).

76 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• German: Abqualifizierung — act of calling into question or challenging the accuracy or propriety of something
• German: Diskreditierung — act of calling into question or challenging the accuracy or propriety of something
• German: Herabwürdigung — act of calling into question or challenging the accuracy or propriety of something
• German: Infragestellen — act of calling into question or challenging the accuracy or propriety of something
• German: Infragestellung — act of calling into question or challenging the accuracy or propriety of something
• Japanese: 糾弾 (kyūdan) — act of calling into question or challenging the accuracy or propriety of something
• German: Anklage wegen Landesverrats — accusation that a person has committed a crime against the state
• German: Beschuldigung des Landesverrats — accusation that a person has committed a crime against the state
• German: Anklage wegen eines Staatsschutzdelikts — accusation that a person has committed a crime against the state
• Arabic: طَعْن (ṭaʕn) — act of impeaching or charging a public official with misconduct
• Arabic: سَحْب ثِقَة (saḥb ṯiqa) — act of impeaching or charging a public official with misconduct
• Azerbaijani: impiçment — act of impeaching or charging a public official with misconduct
• Belarusian: імпі́чмент (impíčmjent) — act of impeaching or charging a public official with misconduct
• Belarusian: імпі́чмэнт (impíčment) — act of impeaching or charging a public official with misconduct
• Bulgarian: импи́йчмънт (impíjčmǎnt) — act of impeaching or charging a public official with misconduct
• Chinese Mandarin: 彈劾 /弹劾 (tánhé) — act of impeaching or charging a public official with misconduct
• Czech: impeachment — act of impeaching or charging a public official with misconduct
• Danish: rigsretssag — act of impeaching or charging a public official with misconduct
• Dutch: afzetting — act of impeaching or charging a public official with misconduct
• Esperanto: elpostenigo — act of impeaching or charging a public official with misconduct
• Estonian: impeachment — act of impeaching or charging a public official with misconduct
• Faroese: ríkisrættarmál — act of impeaching or charging a public official with misconduct
• Finnish: virkasyyte — act of impeaching or charging a public official with misconduct
• French: destitution — act of impeaching or charging a public official with misconduct
• French: impeachment — act of impeaching or charging a public official with misconduct
• Georgian: იმპიჩმენტი (imṗičmenṭi) — act of impeaching or charging a public official with misconduct
• Georgian: თანამდებობიდან გადაყენება (tanamdebobidan gadaq̇eneba) — act of impeaching or charging a public official with misconduct
• German: Amtsenthebung — act of impeaching or charging a public official with misconduct
• German: Amtsenthebungsverfahren — act of impeaching or charging a public official with misconduct
• German: Impeachment — act of impeaching or charging a public official with misconduct
• Hindi: महाभियोग (mahābhiyog) — act of impeaching or charging a public official with misconduct
• Icelandic: ákæra fyrir embættisglöp — act of impeaching or charging a public official with misconduct
• Icelandic: ríkisréttarmál — act of impeaching or charging a public official with misconduct
• Indonesian: pemakzulan — act of impeaching or charging a public official with misconduct
• Italian: destituzione — act of impeaching or charging a public official with misconduct
• Italian: impeachment — act of impeaching or charging a public official with misconduct
• Italian: messa in accusa — act of impeaching or charging a public official with misconduct
• Japanese: 弾劾 (dangai) — act of impeaching or charging a public official with misconduct
• Kazakh: импичмент (impiçment) — act of impeaching or charging a public official with misconduct
• Korean: 탄핵 (tanhaek) — act of impeaching or charging a public official with misconduct
• Kyrgyz: импичмент (impicment) — act of impeaching or charging a public official with misconduct
• Latvian: impīčments — act of impeaching or charging a public official with misconduct
• Lithuanian: apkalta — act of impeaching or charging a public official with misconduct
• Lithuanian: impičmentas — act of impeaching or charging a public official with misconduct
• Marathi: महाभियोग (mahābhiyog) — act of impeaching or charging a public official with misconduct
• Norwegian Bokmål: riksrett — act of impeaching or charging a public official with misconduct
• Persian: استیضاح (estizâh) — act of impeaching or charging a public official with misconduct
• Polish: impeachment — act of impeaching or charging a public official with misconduct
• Portuguese: destituição — act of impeaching or charging a public official with misconduct
• Portuguese: impugnação — act of impeaching or charging a public official with misconduct
• Portuguese: impeachment — act of impeaching or charging a public official with misconduct
• Romanian: destituire — act of impeaching or charging a public official with misconduct
• Russian: импи́чмент (impíčment) — act of impeaching or charging a public official with misconduct
• Serbo-Croatian: импи́чмент — act of impeaching or charging a public official with misconduct
• Serbo-Croatian: о̏позӣв — act of impeaching or charging a public official with misconduct
• Serbo-Croatian: impíčment — act of impeaching or charging a public official with misconduct
• Serbo-Croatian: ȍpozīv — act of impeaching or charging a public official with misconduct
• Slovak: impeachment — act of impeaching or charging a public official with misconduct
• Spanish: impeachment — act of impeaching or charging a public official with misconduct
• Spanish: desafuero — act of impeaching or charging a public official with misconduct
• Spanish: destitución — act of impeaching or charging a public official with misconduct
• Spanish: juicio político — act of impeaching or charging a public official with misconduct
• Spanish: suspensión — act of impeaching or charging a public official with misconduct
• Spanish: impichmen — act of impeaching or charging a public official with misconduct
• Spanish: impechmen — act of impeaching or charging a public official with misconduct
• Swedish: riksrättsförfarande — act of impeaching or charging a public official with misconduct
• Swedish: riksrättsåtal — act of impeaching or charging a public official with misconduct
• Swedish: riksrättsdom — act of impeaching or charging a public official with misconduct
• Tajik: импичмент (impičment) — act of impeaching or charging a public official with misconduct
• Ukrainian: імпі́чмент (impíčment) — act of impeaching or charging a public official with misconduct
• Uzbek: impichment — act of impeaching or charging a public official with misconduct
• Vietnamese: việc luận tội — act of impeaching or charging a public official with misconduct
• Vietnamese: cuộc luận tội — act of impeaching or charging a public official with misconduct
• Vietnamese: việc đàn hặc — act of impeaching or charging a public official with misconduct
• Vietnamese: cuộc đàn hặc — act of impeaching or charging a public official with misconduct
• Polish: impeachment — state of being impeached