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impeach

/im-peech/US // ɪmˈpitʃ //UK // (ɪmˈpiːtʃ) //

弹劾,弹奏,劾,抨击

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v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to accuse before an appropriate tribunal of misconduct in office.
    • : Chiefly Law. to challenge the credibility of: to impeach a witness.
    • : to bring an accusation against.
    • : to call in question; cast an imputation upon: to impeach a person's motives.
    • : to call to account.
n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : Obsolete. impeachment.

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Examples

  • Every call, all over the country, men and women, all said the same thing: Impeach him.

  • In 2013, for example, Clovis said that it would be difficult to impeach the President “because he claims to be black.”

  • Within the House Judiciary Committee, six Republicans voted with 21 Democrats to impeach the president.

  • Liberal Democrats wanted to impeach President George W. Bush, but Pelosi took it off the table.

  • But GOP candidates are making it clear to voters: We will move to impeach Obama.

  • He would impeach all his partners, acknowledge his errors, and promise once more to reform.

  • Let those who are greater, and wiser, and purer than Washington, impeach him.

  • If any president refuse to lend the executive arm of the government to the enforcement of the law, it can impeach the president.

  • If, when it has passed a law, any Court shall refuse to obey its behests, it can impeach the judges.

  • Do not think, however, that in making this observation I intend to impeach the character of Philip van Artevelde himself.