depose

Meaning

1. (literally, transitive) To put down; to lay down; to deposit; to lay aside; to put away.
2. (transitive) To remove (a leader) from (high) office without killing (them).
3. (intransitive) To give evidence or testimony, especially in response to interrogation during a deposition.
4. (transitive) To interrogate and elicit testimony from during a deposition, typically by a lawyer.
5. (intransitive) To take or swear an oath.
6. To testify; to bear witness; to claim; to assert; to affirm.

Synonyms

dethrone

overthrow

cashier

swear

oust

dismiss

remove

topple

depone

put down

give testimony

force out

give evidence

discrown

testify

unseat

bring down

dispatch

divest

eliminate

expel

file

get rid of

hand in

lay down

leave

lodge

overturn

pause

plant

🌱

reject

secularize

store

take down

tell one’s story

remove from office

throw down

be an witness

stop

🛑

undedicate

abase

bear witness

bury

cable

cast off

cease

deconsecrate

defeat

deposit

desist

Translations

deporre

déposer

deponer

depor

εκθρονίζω

عزل

afzetten

testimoniare

onttronen

absetzen

bezeugen

destituer

témoigner

deponieren

dichiarare

Pronounced as (IPA)

/dɪˈpəʊz/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: -

In summary

Recorded since c.1300, from Middle English, from Old French deposer, from de- (“down”) + poser (“to put, place”). Deposition (1494 in the legal sense) belongs to deposit, but that related word and depose became thoroughly confused.