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DEPOSE
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I. (verb)
Verb forms
Present simple: I / you / we / they depose ... he / she / it deposes
Past simple: deposed
Past participle: deposed
-ing form: deposing
Sense 1
Meaning:
Make a deposition; declare under oath
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing
Hypernyms (to "depose" is one way to...):
declare (state emphatically and authoritatively)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s that CLAUSE
Derivation:
deposer (a person who testifies or gives a deposition)
deposition ((law) a pretrial interrogation of a witness; usually conducted in a lawyer's office)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Force to leave (an office)
Synonyms:
depose; force out
Classified under:
Verbs of political and social activities and events
Hypernyms (to "depose" is one way to...):
boot out; drum out; expel; kick out; oust; throw out (remove from a position or office)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "depose"):
bring down; overthrow; overturn; subvert (cause the downfall of; of rulers)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s somebody
Derivation:
deposition (the act of deposing someone; removing a powerful person from a position or office)
Context examples:
About half a dozen men came forward; and, one being selected by the magistrate, he deposed that he had been out fishing the night before with his son and brother-in-law, Daniel Nugent, when, about ten o’clock, they observed a strong northerly blast rising, and they accordingly put in for port.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
Catherine Cusack, maid to the Countess, deposed to having heard Ryder’s cry of dismay on discovering the robbery, and to having rushed into the room, where she found matters as described by the last witness.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
