different between impeach vs denounce

English

Alternative forms

• empeach (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English empechen, borrowed from Anglo-Norman empecher, from Old French empeechier (“to hinder”), from Latin impedic?re (“to fetter”). Cognate with French empêcher (“to prevent”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?m?pi?t?/
• Rhymes: -i?t?

Verb

impeach (third-person singular simple present impeaches, present participle impeaching, simple past and past participle impeached)

1. To hinder, impede, or prevent.
   • 1612, John Davies, Discoverie of the True Causes why Ireland was never entirely subdued

     These ungracious practices of his sons did impeach his journey to the Holy Land.

   • February 2 1621, James Howell, "To my Father" in Epistolæ Ho-Elianæ

     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

2. To bring a legal proceeding against a public official.

   President Clinton was impeached by the House in November 1998, but since the Senate acquitted him, he was not removed from office.

3. To charge with impropriety; to discredit; to call into question.
4. (law) To demonstrate in court that a testimony under oath contradicts another testimony from the same person, usually one taken during deposition.

Derived terms

• impeachment

Translations

Anagrams

• aphemic

English

Etymology

From Old French denuncier, from Latin d?n?nti? (“to announce, to denounce, to threaten”), from de + n?nti? (“to announce, to report, to denounce”), from n?ntius (“messenger, message”)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /di?na?ns/, /d??na?ns/
• Rhymes: -a?ns

Verb

denounce (third-person singular simple present denounces, present participle denouncing, simple past and past participle denounced)

1. (transitive, obsolete) To make known in a formal manner; to proclaim; to announce; to declare.
2. (transitive) To criticize or speak out against (someone or something); to point out as deserving of reprehension, etc.; to openly accuse or condemn in a threatening manner; to invoke censure upon; to stigmatize; to blame.

   to denounce someone as a swindler, or as a coward

   • 2013 May 23, Sarah Lyall, "British Leader’s Liberal Turn Sets Off a Rebellion in His Party," New York Times (retrieved 29 May 2013):

     Mr. Cameron had a respite Thursday from the negative chatter swirling around him when he appeared outside 10 Downing Street to denounce the murder a day before of a British soldier on a London street.

3. (transitive) To make a formal or public accusation against; to inform against; to accuse.

4. (transitive, obsolete) To proclaim in a threatening manner; to threaten by some outward sign or expression; make a menace of.

5. (transitive) To announce the termination of; especially a treaty or armistice.
6. (US, historical) To claim the right of working a mine that is abandoned or insufficiently worked.

Synonyms

• attack, charge, condemn, criticize, damn, decry, discredit, inveigh against, proscribe, report

Related terms

• denunciate

Derived terms

• denouncement
• denouncer

Related terms

Translations

See also

• announce
• enounce
• pronounce
• renounce

References

• denounce in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• denounce in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

Anagrams

• enounced, unencode