• (British) IPA: /dɪˈpəʊz/
• (America) IPA: /diˈpoʊz/, /dəˈpoʊz/

depose (deposes, present participle deposing; past and past participle deposed)

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

   • 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.

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

3. (legal, intransitive) To give evidence or testimony, especially in response to interrogation during a deposition
4. (legal, 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.

   • 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: Printed by Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358 ↗, [Act I, scene iii]:

     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.
   • c. 1598, Francis Bacon, The Office of Compositions for Alienations

     to depose the yearly rent or valuation of lands

• declare

• restore

• deponent
• deposit
• deposition
• depositio de bene esse

• German: niederlegen, deponieren

• German: absetzen; entthronen (monarch only)
• Russian: низлага́ть

• German: unter Eid aussagen, bezeugen
• Portuguese: depor

• German: verhören