depose

See also: dépose and déposé

English

Etymology

Recorded since c.1300, from Middle English, from Old French deposer, from de- (“down”) + poser (“to put, place”). Deposition (1494 in the legal sense) belongs to deposit, but that related word and depose became thoroughly confused.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dɪˈpəʊz/
• IPA^(key): /diˈpoʊz/, /dəˈpoʊz/

• Audio (US):

  (file)

• Rhymes: -əʊz

Verb

1. (literally, transitive) To put down; to lay down; to deposit; to lay aside; to put away.
   • Woodword

     additional mud deposed upon it

2. (transitive) To remove (a leader) from (high) office, without killing the incumbent.

   A deposed monarch may go into exile as pretender to the lost throne, hoping to be restored in a subsequent revolution.

   • Prynne

     a tyrant over his subjects, and therefore worthy to be deposed

3. (law, intransitive) To give evidence or testimony, especially in response to interrogation during a deposition
4. (law, transitive) To interrogate and elicit testimony from during a deposition; typically done by a lawyer.

   After we deposed the claimant we had enough evidence to avoid a trial.

   • Shakespeare

     Depose him in the justice of his cause.

5. (intransitive) To take or swear an oath.
6. To testify; to bear witness; to claim; to assert; to affirm.
   • Francis Bacon

     to depose the yearly rent or valuation of lands

Synonyms

• declare

Antonyms

• restore

Derived terms

• deposable
• deposal

Related terms

• deponent
• deposit
• deposition
• depositio de bene esse

Translations

to put - or lay something down

• Bulgarian: депонирам (deponiram)
• Dutch: neerleggen (nl)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• German: niederlegen, deponieren (de)
• Romanian: depune (ro)

to remove (a leader) from office

• Arabic:

  Egyptian Arabic: عزل (ʕazal)

• Bulgarian: детронирам (bg) (detroniram)
• Dutch: afzetten (nl), onttronen (monarch only), uit het ambt ontzetten
• Finnish: suistaa vallasta
• German: absetzen; entthronen (de) (monarch only)
• Hebrew: הדיח (he) m (hediyakh)
• Hungarian: eltávolít (hu), letesz (hu)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Irish: (Ceannaire) do briseadh amach, aithríoghadh (monarch only)
• Maori: whakataka
• Romanian: detronare (ro) f
• Russian: низлага́ть (ru) impf (nizlagátʹ), низложи́ть (ru) pf (nizložítʹ)
• Serbo-Croatian: svrgnuti (sh)
• Swedish: avsätta (sv)

to give evidence or testimony

• Bulgarian: давам показания (davam pokazanija)
• Dutch: getuigen (nl), getuigenis afleggen
• German: unter (de) Eid (de) m aussagen (de), bezeugen (de)
• Hungarian: tanúsít (hu)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Irish: fianaise a thabhairt
• Portuguese: depor (pt)
• Romanian: mărturisi (ro), a depune mărturie

to take an oath

• Bulgarian: давам клетва (davam kletva)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Dutch: een/de eed afleggen/ zweren

to interrogate and elicit testimony

• Dutch: laten getuigen, onttronen, uit het ambt ontzetten, eed getuigenis/ afleggen afnemen, verhoren
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• German: verhören (de)

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.

Translations to be checked

• Arabic: عزل (ʕázala), ^{(please verify)} خَلَعَ (ḵalaʕa), ^{(please verify)} أَقَالَ (ar) (ʔaqāla); ^{(please verify)} شَهِدَ أَمَامَ مَحْكَمَة (šahida ʔamāma maḥkama)
• (deprecated template usage) Estonian: võimult kõrvaldama, (kirjalikult) tunnistama
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• (deprecated template usage) French: déposer, faire une déposition, prester serment, interroger
• Italian: ^{(please verify)} deporre (it)

Anagrams

• Speedo, epodes, speedo

---

Ido

Etymology

From depos (“since, afterward”) +‎ -e (“adverb”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /de.ˈpo.se/, /dɛ.ˈpɔ.sɛ/

Adverb

depose

1. since, from that time, thence, thenceforth

Related terms

• depos ke (“since”)

---

Italian

Verb

depose

1. third-person singular past historic of deporre