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Definition of impeaching : of Impeach

Synonyms:

alleging, incriminating, citing, inculpating, scolding, accusing, arraigning, denouncing, imputing, reproaching, criticizing, complaining, implicating, blaming, charging, condemning

litigating, subpoenaing, suing, prosecuting, indicting

Usage examples:

• Therefore, Themistocles associating several persons against Aristides, and impeaching him when he gave in his accounts, caused him to be condemned of robbing the public; so Idomeneus states; but the best and chiefest men of the city much resenting it, he was not only exempted from the fine imposed upon him, but likewise again called to the same employment. - "Plutarch-Lives-of-the-noble-Grecians-and-Romans", Clough, Arthur Hugh.
• The army refused to submit to the decree of the captive Assembly impeaching the President of the Republic; but the High Court of Justice obeyed it. - "The Great Events by Famous Historians, Vol. 17", Charles Francis Horne.
• The authenticity of the details which I shall relate can be attested, if necessary, by living persons, whom I shall have occasion to name in my narrative, and whose testimony no reader would dream of impeaching. - "The Project Gutenberg Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte", Bourrienne, Constant, and Stewarton.