What's the difference between empeach and impeach?
Empeach
Definition:
(v. t.) To hinder. See Impeach.
Example Sentences:
(1) A tube of polyethylene introduced in the ostium of the Eustachian tube maintains the vein in position during 3-4 weeks, the intima of the vein is an empeachment for synechia with the promontorium.
Impeach
Definition:
(v. t.) To hinder; to impede; to prevent.
(v. t.) To charge with a crime or misdemeanor; to accuse; especially to charge (a public officer), before a competent tribunal, with misbehavior in office; to cite before a tribunal for judgement of official misconduct; to arraign; as, to impeach a judge. See Impeachment.
(v. t.) Hence, to charge with impropriety; to dishonor; to bring discredit on; to call in question; as, to impeach one's motives or conduct.
(v. t.) To challenge or discredit the credibility of, as of a witness, or the validity of, as of commercial paper.
(n.) Hindrance; impeachment.
Example Sentences:
(1) This may go some way to explaining why, even as his approval ratings fall off a cliff and some call for his impeachment, he sees no reason to course-correct, as he and a noisy caucus around him seem to become ever more self-righteous.
(2) An impeachment effort would have no impact on the current proceedings "This is a case of our state's judges inserting their personal biases and political opinions into the equation," Christian told the Associated Press.
(3) China’s official Xinhua news agency wasted no time in responding to Park’s impeachment and accused her of dealing “a massive blow to [South Korea’s] relationship with Beijing” by agreeing to host the Thaad missile system.
(4) The [impeachment] process will be followed by the entire population.” To proceed, the removal proposal needs the support of at least two-thirds of the deputies, or 342 of the 513 votes in the lower house.
(5) The legislature is also due to begin impeachment hearings against a former house speaker and a former senate speaker for allegedly trying to amend the constitution, which the army suspended when it seized power.
(6) Last month, Lula’s successor president Dilma Rousseff was impeached and ejected from office less than halfway through her mandate on relatively minor charges of window-dressing state accounts ahead of the 2014 election.
(7) South Korea scandal explained: six key points on the cronyism claims engulfing the president Read more South Korea’s three biggest opposition parties claimed they had won the support of enough lawmakers from Park’s ruling Saenuri party to push ahead with impeachment.
(8) A recent petition backed by military officials sought to impeach Shwe Mann for his role in proposing amendments to the military-drafted constitution, which were anyway rejected.
(9) This followed the worrying decision to impeach the country's chief justice, through a process held to be illegal both by Sri Lanka's supreme court and by international experts.
(10) Instead, he wound up the debate by confirming that he would once again vote for impeachment.
(11) Mardom-e-Emrooz’s closure came after a number of conservative media outlets in Iran , including the daily paper Kayhan, demanded it be shut down and MPs threatened to impeach the culture minister if no action was taken.
(12) Of all the investigative work she's done, though, she is proudest of the inquiry she led into the independent counsel Ken Starr at the time of the impeachment of Bill Clinton .
(13) Questionable behavior is not the same as criminal or even impeachable conduct.
(14) We’re closer to impeachment than two or three months ago.
(15) The council previously suspended 22 junior judges who appeared in the video and investigated the conduct of high court judges to see if there was a case for their impeachment.
(16) Of course, Senate Republicans may decide this for themselves by voting Trump innocent in his impeachment trial in 2019.
(17) The House Republican leadership today called for the President's resignation and warned him that the alternative was a near-unanimous vote in the House of Representatives to be followed by an early trial in the Senate and probable conviction on the Bill of Impeachment.
(18) Park was impeached by parliament in December after accusations that she colluded with long-time friend Choi Soon-sil to pressure big businesses to donate to two foundations set up to back the president’s policy initiatives.
(19) Johnson, who was part of a campaign in parliament in 2004 to impeach Blair, told LBC: "It would be hard to mount criminal charges.
(20) South Korea’s opposition parties are working towards launching impeachment proceedings against her but they need votes from Park’s ruling party if the motion is to succeed.