IMPEACH Synonyms: 81 Similar and Opposite Words

impeach

verb

im-ˈpēch

Definition of impeach

as in to accuse

to make a claim of wrongdoing against the company's president has been impeached by the Securities and Exchange Commission

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as in to challenge

to demand proof of the truth or rightness of questionable methodology that should cause us to impeach the findings of this survey on obesity

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Recent Examples of impeach Some Senate candidates allied with Flávio Bolsonaro have promised to push to impeach members of the country's highest court, while Lula allies are considering term limits. — ABC News, 15 Sep. 2026 The Stockbridge City Council, in a 3-0 vote, impeached Jayden Williams, who campaigned for the position while still a student at Clark Atlanta University. — Natalie Neysa Alund, USA Today, 15 Sep. 2026 The Texas attorney general was impeached by the state House in 2023 on accusations of bribery, obstruction of justice and abuse of the public trust. — Kaia Hubbard, CBS News, 9 Sep. 2026 Congress also has the right to impeach the president, with the House drawing up articles of impeachment and the Senate holding the trial on those articles. — Tracy Grant, Encyclopedia Britannica, 26 Aug. 2026 See All Example Sentences for impeach

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Rogers later accused the moderator of bias toward the Democratic candidate.

— Christopher Buchanan, Los Angeles Times, 21 Sep. 2026
Afterward, friends texted to ask what the school was accusing her of.

— Benjamin Wofford, New Yorker, 21 Sep. 2026

Definition of accuse

Verb

After the Supreme Court ruling outlawing affirmative action, civil rights groups filed a federal complaint challenging Harvard’s legacy and donor preferences.

— Jayson Weingarten, Fortune, 26 Sep. 2026
In forensic parlance, a diagnosis of exclusion is one reached by ruling out other plausible causes; drowning can be challenging to prove, because often there’s no telltale sign that one occurred.

— Cristian Farias, New Yorker, 26 Sep. 2026

Definition of challenge

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Initially indicted only for alleged money laundering, he has since been accused by federal prosecutors of conspiring to smuggle cocaine on the high seas and narco-terrorism.

— Senior Editor, Los Angeles Times, 23 Sep. 2026
When a backlash sent him back to New York, he was repeatedly indicted but eluded criminal conviction.

— The Week US, TheWeek, 22 Sep. 2026

Definition of indict

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The family initially claimed Ellis acted in self-defense after Matthew entered the home with a knife, but investigators soon questioned that account.

— Samantha Stutsman, PEOPLE, 26 Sep. 2026
The article went viral, garnering pushback from the LGBT community over how it was covered and more attention to the LGBT bar itself from conservative pundits, who questioned why the bar still had a mask mandate.

— Molly Parks, The Washington Examiner, 25 Sep. 2026

Definition of question

Verb

His appellate legal team has been aggressively searching for any and every legal avenue that would overturn the judge’s sentence, nullify the jury’s guilty verdict, or even discredit the very criminal law that Combs was prosecuted under.

— Nancy Dillon, Rolling Stone, 21 Sep. 2026
In court filings, Moriarty says her office would not indict Taylor on the first-degree charge if the case were to be prosecuted in the modern day.

— Aki Nace, CBS News, 21 Sep. 2026

Definition of prosecute

Verb

How much the company could collect, and how the costs would be divided, remains disputed.

— Akshaya Jha, The Conversation, 22 Sep. 2026
But only five years later, in November 2020, the military’s proxy party lost a second consecutive election and, three months later, after disputing the results, seized power through a coup.

— Andrew Nachemson, The Dial, 22 Sep. 2026

Definition of dispute

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In Kansas City, fans will see the Ravens-Cowboys game from Brazil that will follow the Chiefs-Dolphins contest on KCTV.

— Pete Grathoff, Kansas City Star, 24 Sep. 2026
Others have created a multimodal version of it using text, images, quotations, citations, audio, video, or other media to show how the idea is inherited, transformed, contested, and reimagined.

— Saurabh Anand, JSTOR Daily, 24 Sep. 2026

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