Synonyms of the word

impeach

• v. To hinder, impede, or prevent.
• v. To bring a legal proceeding against a public official.
• v. To charge with impropriety; to discredit; to call into question.
• v. (law) To demonstrate in court that a testimony under oath contradicts another testimony from the same…

accuse

• v. (transitive) To find fault with, to blame, to censure.
• v. (transitive) To charge with having committed a crime or offence.
• v. (intransitive) To make an accusation against someone.
• n. (obsolete) An accusation.

challenge

• n. A confrontation; a dare.
• n. A difficult task, especially one that the person making the attempt finds more enjoyable because of that…
• n. (law) A procedure or action.
• n. (hunting) The opening and crying of hounds at first finding the scent of their game.
• v. To invite someone to take part in a competition.
• v. To dare someone.
• v. To dispute something.
• v. (law) To make a formal objection to a juror.
• v. (obsolete) To claim as due; to demand as a right.
• v. (obsolete) To censure; to blame.
• v. (military) To question or demand the countersign from (one who attempts to pass the lines).
• v. (US) To object to the reception of the vote of, e.g. on the ground that the person is not qualified as…
• v. (Canada, US) To take (a final exam) in order to get credit for a course without taking it.

charge

• n. The scope of someone's responsibility.
• n. Someone or something entrusted to one's care, such as a child to a babysitter or a student to a teacher.
• n. A load or burden; cargo.
• n. The amount of money levied for a service.
• n. An instruction.
• n. (military) A ground attack against a prepared enemy.
• n. An accusation.
• n. An electric charge.
• n. (basketball) An offensive foul in which the player with the ball moves into a stationary defender.
• n. A measured amount of powder and/or shot in a firearm cartridge.
• n. (heraldry) An image displayed on an escutcheon.
• n. A forceful forward movement.
• n. A position (of a weapon) fitted for attack.
• n. (farriery) A sort of plaster or ointment.
• n. (obsolete) Weight; import; value.
• n. (historical or obsolete) A measure of thirty-six pigs of lead, each pig weighing about seventy pounds;…
• n. (ecclesiastical) An address given at a church service concluding a visitation.
• v. To assign a duty or responsibility to.
• v. (transitive) To assign (a debit) to an account.
• v. (transitive) To pay on account, as by using a credit card.
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To require payment (of) (a price or fee, for goods, services, etc.).
• v. (possibly archaic) To sell at a given price.
• v. (law) To formally accuse (a person) of a crime.
• v. To impute or ascribe.
• v. To call to account; to challenge.
• v. (transitive) To place a burden or load on or in.
• v. (transitive) To load equipment with material required for its use, as a firearm with powder, a fire hose…
• v. (intransitive) To move forward quickly and forcefully, particularly in combat and/or on horseback.
• v. (transitive, of a hunting dog) To lie on the belly and be still. (A command given by a hunter to a dog…

criminate

• v. (transitive, construed with of) To accuse, incriminate, impeach.
• v. (transitive, construed with of) To rebuke, censure, reprimand.

file

• n. A collection of papers collated and archived together.
• n. A roll or list.
• n. Course of thought; thread of narration.
• n. (computing) An aggregation of data on a storage device, identified by a name.
• v. (transitive) To commit official papers to some office.
• v. (transitive) To place in an archive in a logical place and order.
• v. (transitive) To store a file (aggregation of data) on a storage medium such as a disc or another computer.
• v. (intransitive, with for, chiefly law) To make a formal request for the benefit of an official status.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To set in order; to arrange, or lay away.
• n. A column of people one behind another, whether "single file" or in a large group with many files side…
• n. (military) A small detachment of soldiers.
• n. (chess) one of the eight vertical lines of squares on a chessboard (i.e., those identified by a letter)…
• v. (intransitive) To move in a file.
• n. A hand tool consisting of a handle to which a block of coarse metal is attached, and used for removing…
• n. (slang, archaic) A cunning or resourceful person.
• v. (transitive) To smooth, grind, or cut with a file.
• v. (archaic) to defile.
• v. to corrupt.

incriminate

• v. (transitive) To accuse or bring criminal charges against.
• v. (transitive) To indicate the guilt of.

lodge

• n. A building for recreational use such as a hunting lodge or a summer cabin.
• n. Porter's or caretaker's rooms at or near the main entrance to a building or an estate.
• n. A local chapter of some fraternities, such as freemasons.
• n. (US) A local chapter of a trade union.
• n. A rural hotel or resort, an inn.
• n. A beaver's shelter constructed on a pond or lake.
• n. A den or cave.
• n. The chamber of an abbot, prior, or head of a college.
• n. (mining) The space at the mouth of a level next to the shaft, widened to permit wagons to pass, or ore…
• n. A collection of objects lodged together.
• n. A family of Native Americans, or the persons who usually occupy an Indian lodge; as a unit of enumeration,…
• v. (intransitive) To be firmly fixed in a specified position.
• v. (intransitive) To stay in a boarding-house, paying rent to the resident landlord or landlady.
• v. (intransitive) To stay in any place or shelter.
• v. (transitive) To supply with a room or place to sleep in for a time.
• v. (transitive) To put money, jewellery, or other valuables for safety.
• v. (transitive) To place (a statement, etc.) with the proper authorities (such as courts, etc.).
• v. (intransitive) To become flattened, as grass or grain, when overgrown or beaten down by the wind.