Definitions for deposes

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deposes de·pose

Spelling: [dih-pohz]

IPA: /dɪˈpoʊz/

Deposes is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 122 anagrams from letters in deposes (deeopss).

Definitions for deposes

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 deposes

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 deposes

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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