impeach
verb
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
- Word type
- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
- Line style
- core relation
- instance, member or derived
- substance, domain or see-also
- Direction
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Senses
Sense 1 verb
challenge the honesty or veracity of
the lawyers tried to impeach the credibility of the witnesses
Types & categories
- challenge hypernym
Sense 2 verb
charge (a public official) with an offense or misdemeanor committed while in office
The President was impeached
Types & categories
- lodge hypernym
Related & opposite
- impeachment derivation
Sense 3 verb
bring an accusation against; level a charge against
The neighbors accused the man of spousal abuse
Types & categories
- charge hypernym
- reproach hyponym
- arraign hyponym
- recriminate hyponym
- lodge hyponym
Related & opposite
- crime derivation
- accusation derivation
- blame derivation
- accuser derivation
- accusative derivation
- criminative derivation
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | challenge |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | impeachment |
| 2 | hypernym | Types & categories | lodge |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | crime |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | accusation |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | blame |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | accuser |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | accusative |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | criminative |
| 3 | hypernym | Types & categories | charge |
| 3 | hyponym | Types & categories | reproach |
| 3 | hyponym | Types & categories | arraign |
| 3 | hyponym | Types & categories | recriminate |
| 3 | hyponym | Types & categories | lodge |