Depose

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • v. To remove from office or power.
  • v. To dethrone.
  • v. Law To state or affirm in a deposition or by affidavit.
  • v. Law To take a deposition from: Investigators will depose the witness behind closed doors.
  • v. To put or lay down; deposit.
  • verb-intransitive. Law To give a deposition; testify.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • v. (transitive) To put down; to lay down; to deposit; to lay aside; to put away.
  • v. To remove (a leader) from (high) office, without killing the incumbent.
  • v. (intransitive) To give evidence or testimony, especially in response to interrogation during a deposition
  • v. To take, swear an oath.
  • v. (transitive) To interrogate and elicit testimony during a deposition, typically by a lawyer.
  • v. To testify; to bear witness; to claim; to assert; to affirm.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • v. To lay down; to divest one's self of; to lay aside.
  • v. To let fall; to deposit.
  • v. To remove from a throne or other high station; to dethrone; to divest or deprive of office.
  • v. To testify under oath; to bear testimony to; -- now usually said of bearing testimony which is officially written down for future use.
  • v. To put under oath.
  • verb-intransitive. To bear witness; to testify under oath; to make deposition.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To lay down; let fall; deposit.
  • To lay aside.
  • To remove; eject; evict.
  • To remove from office, especially from royalty, or from high executive, ecclesiastical, or judicial office; dethrone; divest of office: as, to depose a king or a bishop.
  • To take away; strip off (from one); divest (one of).
  • To testify to; attest.
  • To examine on oath; take the deposition of.
  • To bear witness.
  • Specifically To give testimony on oath; especially, to give testimony which is embodied in writing in a deposition or an affidavit; give answers to interrogatories intended as evidence in a court: as, he deposed to the following facts; the witness deposes and says that, etc.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • v. force to leave (an office)
  • v. make a deposition; declare under oath
  • Antonym
    restore   
    Verb Form
    deposed    deposes    deposing   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    declare   
    Cross Reference
    testify   
    Form
    deposal    deposable   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    deposit    dethrone    declare   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Bose    Brose    Goes    Joes    Jos    Mose    Rose    Stavros    arose    bestows