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发音：[ɪmˈpjun]
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例句：
- To impugn something means to call something into question, oppose or attack something as false or wrong.
- When Republicans last weekend impugned Clinton for controversies surrounding her philanthropies acceptance of foreign donations, she called the attacks “distractions.”
- His attorneys want the office to determine if top officials of the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management acted unfairly in suspending the scientist and impugning his integrity.
- He also impugned U.S. democratic process by saying the elections “easily could be illegitimate” without enacting the Democrats’ voting bills, which died in the Senate on Wednesday night.
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解释：
- Impugn这个单词为动词，且为正式用词，其表示“to challenge something as false, or cast doubt upon”这一含义，即“对…表示怀疑/置疑，责难，攻击”，与criticize/blame/denounce这些单词构成近义词。
- 具体使用场景如下
- President Trump is impugning former president Barack Obama, touting a conspiracy theory called “Obamagate” to rally his conservative base.（特朗普总统正在指责前总统巴拉克奥巴马，吹捧一个名为“奥巴马门”的阴谋论，以团结他的保守派基础。）
—Politics - In the process, he impugned the nation’s law enforcement agencies and publicly undermined the consensus view of its intelligence agencies that Russia interfered in the campaign.（在此过程中，他指责该国的执法机构，并公开破坏其情报机构的共识，即俄罗斯干预了这场运动。）
—Politics - Our main concern is that industry-funded groups and law firms are seeking to criminalize the peer review process by obtaining internal editorial comments of reviewers as a means to impeach or impugn scientists.（我们主要担心的是，行业资助的团体和律师事务所正试图通过获得审稿人的内部编辑评论来弹劾或指责科学家，从而将同行评审过程定为犯罪。）
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