DEPOSE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does depose mean? 

• DEPOSE (verb)
  The verb DEPOSE has 2 senses:

1. force to leave (an office)

2. make a deposition; declare under oath

  Familiarity information: DEPOSE used as a verb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DEPOSE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they depose    ... he / she / it deposes   
Past simple: deposed   
Past participle: deposed   
-ing form: deposing   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Force to leave (an office)

Classified under:

Verbs of political and social activities and events

Synonyms:

depose; force out

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)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Make a deposition; declare under oath

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Synonyms:

depone; depose; swear

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)

 Context examples 

You'll make a note of this here also, doctor, says he, and the boy'll tell you how I saved his life, and were deposed for it too, and you may lay to that.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

The evil side of my nature, to which I had now transferred the stamping efficacy, was less robust and less developed than the good which I had just deposed.

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

But this maid, Alice, as I understand, deposes that she went to her room, covered her bride’s dress with a long ulster, put on a bonnet, and went out.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The servant deposed that she heard him enter the front room on the second floor, generally used as his sitting-room.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I informed her that my reason was tottering on its throne, and only she, Miss Mills, could prevent its being deposed.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

A woman deposed that she lived near the beach and was standing at the door of her cottage, waiting for the return of the fishermen, about an hour before she heard of the discovery of the body, when she saw a boat with only one man in it push off from that part of the shore where the corpse was afterwards found.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

The Bertrams were all forgotten in detailing the faults of Rebecca, against whom Susan had also much to depose, and little Betsey a great deal more, and who did seem so thoroughly without a single recommendation, that Fanny could not help modestly presuming that her mother meant to part with her when her year was up.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

However, if those whom it more concerns think fit to be of another opinion, I am ready to depose, when I shall be lawfully called, that no European did ever visit those countries before me.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

Both these witnesses depose that Mr. McCarthy was walking alone.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

And this again, that that insurgent horror was knit to him closer than a wife, closer than an eye; lay caged in his flesh, where he heard it mutter and felt it struggle to be born; and at every hour of weakness, and in the confidence of slumber, prevailed against him, and deposed him out of life.

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)