ped-, pedi-, -pedal, -ped, -pede, -pedia +

1. Having the toes separated.
2. An animal having its toes divided.

Measuring a hundred feet in length and breadth; a hundred feet square.

1. A measure of six feet.
2. A creature with six feet, a hexapod.

Burning pain in the soles of the feet, in multiple neuritis; hotfeet, burning feet.

1. To charge a serving government official with serious misconduct while in office.
2. To remove someone; such as, a President or a judge from public office because of having committed serious crimes and misdemeanors or because of other gross misconduct.
3. To charge someone with a crime or misdemeanor.
4. To question a person's good character.
5. United Kingdom law: to accuse someone of a crime; especially, treason or another crime against the state.
6. Etymology: "to impede, hinder, prevent", from Anglo-French empecher, from Old French empeechier, "hinder" (12th century), from Late Latin impedicare, "to fetter, catch, entangle", from Latin in-, "in" plus pedica, "shackle", from pes (pedis), "foot".

The sense of "accuse a public officer of misconduct" was first recorded in 1568, because of confusion with Latin impetere, "to attack, to accuse".

The state of being liable to impeachment.

1. Capable of being impeached: venal, impeachable public servants.
2. Being such as to warrant impeachment: an impeachable offense.
3. Liable to accusation; chargeable with a crime; accusable; censurable.

1. Someone who challenges or discredits another person's honor, reputation, etc.
2. Anyone who challenges the practices or honesty of; to accuse; especially, to bring (a public official) before a proper tribunal or legal authority on a charge of wrong-doing.

Whenever anyone demands that a public official should be impeached, that person usually intends for the official to be immediately removed from office.

This general use of impeach as a synonym of "throw out" does not agree with the legal meaning of the word. When a public official is impeached or formally accused of malfeasance, it is just the beginning of what can be a lengthy process that may or may not lead to the official's removal from office.

Legal usage refers to an official who is impeached (accused), tried, and then convicted or acquitted.

1. Something that delays or prevents progress, or the preventing of progress.
2. Electricity opposition to flow of alternating current; the opposition in an electrical circuit to the flow of alternating current, consisting of resistance and reactance.
3. The ratio of the pressure to the volume displacement at a given surface in a sound-transmitting medium.
4. Opposition to blood flow in the circulatory system.
5. Resistance of an acoustic system to being set in motion.

1. To retard in progress or action by putting obstacles in the way; to obstruct; to hinder; to stand in the way of.
2. The act of impeding; hindrance; impediment.

1. That which impedes or hinders; obstructive, hindering.
2. An impeding or hindering agent.

1. The fact of impeding or condition of being impeded; hindrance, obstruction; or something that impedes, hinders, or obstructs; a hindrance, an obstruction.
2. Something that impedes the functions or health of the body; a (physical) defect; an affection or malady.

Things which impede or encumber progress; baggage; travelling equipment (of an army, etc.).

That which impedes or obstructs; hindering.

The quality or condition of being inexpedient; disadvantageousness, unadvisableness.