Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to impeach
Participle: impeached
Gerund: impeaching
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | impeach |
| you | impeach |
| he;she;it | impeaches |
| we | impeach |
| you | impeach |
| they | impeach |
Perfect
| I | have impeached |
| you | have impeached |
| he;she;it | has impeached |
| we | have impeached |
| you | have impeached |
| they | have impeached |
Past
| I | impeached |
| you | impeached |
| he;she;it | impeached |
| we | impeached |
| you | impeached |
| they | impeached |
Pluperfect
| I | had impeached |
| you | had impeached |
| he;she;it | had impeached |
| we | had impeached |
| you | had impeached |
| they | had impeached |
Future
| I | will impeach |
| you | will impeach |
| he;she;it | will impeach |
| we | will impeach |
| you | will impeach |
| they | will impeach |
Future Perfect
| I | will have impeached |
| you | will have impeached |
| he;she;it | will have impeached |
| we | will have impeached |
| you | will have impeached |
| they | will have impeached |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | impeach |
| you | impeach |
| he;she;it | impeach |
| we | impeach |
| you | impeach |
| they | impeach |
Perfect
| I | have impeached |
| you | have impeached |
| he;she;it | have impeached |
| we | have impeached |
| you | have impeached |
| they | have impeached |
Imperfect
| I | impeached |
| you | impeached |
| he;she;it | impeached |
| we | impeached |
| you | impeached |
| they | impeached |
Pluperfect
| I | had impeached |
| you | had impeached |
| he;she;it | had impeached |
| we | had impeached |
| you | had impeached |
| they | had impeached |
Conditional
Present
| I | would impeach |
| you | would impeach |
| he;she;it | would impeach |
| we | would impeach |
| you | would impeach |
| they | would impeach |
Perfect
| I | would have impeached |
| you | would have impeached |
| he;she;it | would have impeached |
| we | would have impeached |
| you | would have impeached |
| they | would have impeached |
Imperative
| you | impeach |
| we | Let's impeach |
| you | impeach |
Verbs conjugated like 'impeach'
abash,
abolish,
abroach,
accomplish,
accroach,
address,
admix,
admonish,
ado,
adpress,
affamish,
affix,
alloo,
amass,
ambush,
anguish,
annex,
appeach,
appears,
approach, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'impeach'
empeach,
impleach,
appeach,
depeach,
impact,
impearl,
meach,
peach,
areach,
beach,
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
1. c.1380, "to impede, hinder, prevent," from Anglo-Fr.
empecher, from O.Fr.
empeechier "hinder" (12c.), from L.L.
impedicare "to fetter, catch, entangle," from L.
in- "in" +
pedica "shackle," from
pes (gen.
pedis) "foot." Sense of "accuse a public officer of misconduct" first recorded 1568, via confusion with L.
impetere "attack, accuse."
2. From Middle English empechen, borrowed from Anglo-Norman empecher, from Old French empeechier (“to hinder”), from Latin impedicāre (“to fetter”). Cognate with French empêcher (“to prevent”). See: Old French '
empeechier', Latin '
impedicō', French '
empêcher'.
Verbs referencing "impeach"
French
empêcher, Valencian
empatxar.
Sample Sentences
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These ungracious practices of his sons did impeach his journey to the Holy Land. [1612, John Davies, Discoverie of the True Causes why Ireland was never entirely subdued:]
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I was afraid the same defluxion of Salt Rheum which fell from my Temples into my Throat in Oxford, and distilling upon the Uvula, impeached my Utterance a little to this Day [1655, James Howell, “To my Father”, in Epistolæ Ho-Elianæ. Familiar Letters Domestic and Forren. […], 3rd edition, volume (please specify the page), London: […] Humphrey Mos[e]ley, […], →OCLC:]
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President Clinton was impeached by the House in November 1998, but since the Senate acquitted him, he was not removed from office.