Definitions for depose

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depose de·pose

Spelling: [dih-pohz]

IPA: /dɪˈpoʊz/

Depose is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 94 anagrams from letters in depose (deeops).

Definitions for depose

verb (used with object)

1. to remove from office or position, especially high office:
2. to testify or affirm under oath, especially in a written statement:
3. Law. to take the deposition of; examine under oath:

verb (used without object)

1. to give sworn testimony, especially in writing.

Origin of depose

1250-1300; Middle English deposen Old French deposer to put down, equivalent to de- de- + poser Vulgar Latin *posāre, Late Latin pausāre; see pose<

Examples for depose

Douglas Vassy, the attorney for Battley who was supposed to depose Gingrich, says, “There was no deposition.”

They also sought and were denied the opportunity to depose the president.

In the end they voted a resolution to depose the government, and to elect another.

They had grumbled at their chief and mutinied against him and helped to depose him.

He encouraged cross-border rebels seeking to depose the government of Chad.

At Dalradern, where she ruled as mistress, an accident, a word might depose her.

Mass movements can depose a leader; or, indeed, as with Barack Obama, elect one.

In London, where I met him on several occasions over the last decade, he invariably boasted of his latest efforts to depose Putin.

For years back Miss Barrington had been plotting to depose Darby.

The first witness to depose alleged a number of most damaging facts.