impeachable Definition

impeach
verb impeaches, impeached, impeaching

(Brit)
1. law.
To charge someone with a serious crime, especially a crime against the state or treason.
(N Amer)
2. To accuse (a public or government official) of misconduct while in office.

Thesaurus: indict, charge, arraign, accuse, censure, challenge, denounce, disparage, impugn.
3. To call something into question; to cast doubt upon (eg a person's honesty).

Derivative: impeachable
adj

Etymology: 14c: from French empecher to hinder or impede, from Latin impedicare to fetter.