depose

verbA2

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Động từ

verb

V_es/s

deposes

V_ing/Gerund

deposing

V_ed/pp

deposed

1.
(literally, transitive)To put down; to lay down; to deposit; to lay aside; to put away.
2.
(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.
3.
(intransitive)(law, intransitive) To give evidence or testimony, especially in response to interrogation during a deposition.
4.
(transitive)(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.
5.
(intransitive)To take or swear an oath.
6.
To testify; to bear witness; to claim; to assert; to affirm.

Từ liên quan

Đồng nghĩa

declare depone testifydeclare depone testify

Trái nghĩa

restore

Cùng gốc / liên quan

undeposeddeposabledeposalindeposableundeposable deponent deposit depositiondepositio de bene esse

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Nguồn gốc từ

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.