impeach
verb (used with object)
to accuse (a public official) before an appropriate tribunal of misconduct in office.
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
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Already, with the first words spoken, Big Fox was impeaching his character.
From The Forest Runners A Story of the Great War Trail in Early Kentucky by Joseph A. (Joseph Alexander) Altsheler