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

(UK) IPA^(key): /dɪˈpəʊz/
(US) IPA^(key): /diˈpoʊz/, /dəˈpoʊz/
Audio (US): (file)
Rhymes: -əʊz

Verb

depose (third-person singular simple present deposes, present participle deposing, simple past and past participle deposed)

(literally, transitive) To put down; to lay down; to deposit; to lay aside; to put away.
- 1695, John Woodward, “(please specify the page)”, in An Essay toward a Natural History of the Earth: And Terrestrial Bodies, Especially Minerals: […], London: […] Ric[hard] Wilkin […], →OCLC:
  additional mud deposed upon it
(transitive) To remove (a leader) from (high) office without killing (them).
A deposed monarch may go into exile as pretender to the lost throne, hoping to be restored in a subsequent revolution.
- 1643, William Prynne, “(please specify |part=1 to 4, or Appendix)”, in The Soveraigne Power of Parliaments and Kingdomes: […], London: […] Michael Sparke Senior, →OCLC:
  a tyrant over his subjects, and therefore worthy to be deposed
- 2018 December 1, Drachinifel, 8:35 from the start, in Anti-Slavery Patrols - The West Africa Squadron‎^[1], archived from the original on 29 November 2024:
  The 1840s saw a further escalation, with new laws treating most slave ships captured as pirates, and a number of military expeditions being mounted to destroy slaving centres on the African coast and depose, or even kill, remaining local kings and chiefs who had refused to end slavery in their territory.
(law, intransitive) To give evidence or testimony, especially in response to interrogation during a deposition.
(law, transitive) To interrogate and elicit testimony from during a deposition, typically by a lawyer.
After we deposed the claimant we had enough evidence to avoid a trial.
- 1595 December 9 (first known performance), William Shakespeare, “The life and death of King Richard the Second”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene iii]:
  Depose him in the justice of his cause.
(intransitive) To take or swear an oath.
To testify; to bear witness; to claim; to assert; to affirm.
- c. 1598, Francis Bacon, The Office of Compositions for Alienations:
  to depose the yearly rent or valuation of lands

Synonyms

declare

Antonyms

restore

Derived terms

Related terms

Translations

to put - or lay something down

Bulgarian: депонирам (deponiram)
Dutch: neerleggen (nl)
German: niederlegen (de), deponieren (de)
Romanian: depune (ro)

to remove (a leader) from office

Albanian: please add this translation if you can
Arabic:
Egyptian Arabic: عزل (ʕazal)
Armenian: տապալել (hy) (tapalel), գահընկեց անել (gahənkecʻ anel)
Bulgarian: детронирам (bg) (detroniram)
Czech: sesadit pf, svrhnout pf, zbavit funkce pf
Dutch: afzetten (nl), onttronen (monarch only), uit het ambt ontzetten
Esperanto: please add this translation if you can
Estonian: please add this translation if you can
Finnish: suistaa vallasta
German: absetzen; entthronen (de) (monarch only)
Hebrew: הדיח (he) m (hediyakh)
Hungarian: eltávolít (hu), letesz (hu)
Irish: (Ceannaire) do briseadh amach, aithríoghadh (monarch only)
Latin: dēpōnō (la)
Latvian: please add this translation if you can
Lithuanian: please add this translation if you can
Maori: whakataka
Polish: dymisjonować impf or pf, zdymisjonować pf, odwoływać (pl) impf, odwołać (pl) pf, detronizować (pl) impf (literary), zdetronizować (pl) pf (literary)
Portuguese: depor (pt)
Romanian: detronare (ro) f
Russian: низлага́ть (ru) impf (nizlagátʹ), низложи́ть (ru) pf (nizložítʹ)
Serbo-Croatian: svrgnuti (sh)
Slovak: please add this translation if you can
Spanish: desponer, deponer (es)
Swedish: avsätta (sv)
Turkish: please add this translation if you can
Ukrainian: please add this translation if you can

to give evidence or testimony

Bulgarian: давам показания (davam pokazanija)
Czech: vypovídat pod přísahou impf, svědčit pod přísahou impf
Dutch: getuigen (nl), getuigenis afleggen
German: unter (de) Eid (de) m aussagen (de), bezeugen (de)
Hungarian: tanúsít (hu)
Irish: fianaise a thabhairt
Portuguese: depor (pt)
Romanian: mărturisi (ro), a depune mărturie
Spanish: deposar (es), deponer (es), desponer

to take an oath

Bulgarian: давам клетва (davam kletva)
Dutch: een/de eed afleggen/ zweren

to interrogate and elicit testimony

Dutch: laten getuigen, onttronen, uit het ambt ontzetten, eed getuigenis/ afleggen afnemen, verhoren
German: verhören (de)

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Translations to be checked

Arabic: عزل (ʕázala), ^{(please verify)} خَلَعَ (ḵalaʕa), ^{(please verify)} أَقَالَ (ar) (ʔaqāla); ^{(please verify)} شَهِدَ أَمَامَ مَحْكَمَة (šahida ʔamāma maḥkama)
Estonian: ^{(please verify)} võimult kõrvaldama, ^{(please verify)} (kirjalikult) tunnistama
French: ^{(please verify)} déposer (fr), ^{(please verify)} faire une déposition, ^{(please verify)} prester serment, ^{(please verify)} interroger (fr)
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

since, from that time, thence, thenceforth

Related terms

depos ke (“since”)

Italian

Verb

depose

third-person singular past historic of deporre