Depose

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  • intransitive verb. undefined
  • intransitive verb. To remove from office or power.
  • intransitive verb. To dethrone.
  • intransitive verb. To take a deposition from.
  • intransitive verb. To give testimony by affidavit or 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.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • intransitive verb. To bear witness; to testify under oath; to make deposition.
  • transitive verb. To lay down; to divest one's self of; to lay aside.
  • transitive verb. To let fall; to deposit.
  • transitive verb. To remove from a throne or other high station; to dethrone; to divest or deprive of office.
  • transitive verb. To testify under oath; to bear testimony to; -- now usually said of bearing testimony which is officially written down for future use.
  • transitive verb. To put under oath.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • verb. (transitive) To put down; to lay down; to deposit; to lay aside; to put away.
  • verb. To remove (a leader) from (high) office, without killing the incumbent.
  • verb. (intransitive) To give evidence or testimony, especially in response to interrogation during a deposition
  • verb. To take, swear an oath.
  • verb. (transitive) To interrogate and elicit testimony during a deposition, typically by a lawyer.
  • verb. To testify; to bear witness; to claim; to assert; to affirm.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • verb. force to leave (an office)
  • verb. make a deposition; declare under oath
  • Word Usage
    "Some years later, Lawrence returns with a new wife, Sapphire, a human this time and it seems that things will return to normal but Lawrence still refuses to open the gate and the Vaethyr villagers grow more and more impatient and angry with him, so only Auberon' trust and support keeps them from trying to "depose" him."
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    restore  
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    testify  
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    declare  
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    Bose  Brose  Goes  Joes  Jos  
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