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Definitions: Depose |
DeposeVerb1. Force to leave (an office). 2. Make a deposition; declare under oath. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "depose" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1588. (references) |
Synonyms: DeposeSynonyms: depone (v), force out (v), swear (v). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Abrogation | Cashier; break; oust; unseat, unsaddle; unthrone, dethrone, disenthrone; depose, uncrown; unfrock, strike off the roll; disbar, disbench. |
Affirmation | Depose, depone, aver, avow, avouch, asseverate, swear; make oath, take one's oath; make an affidavit, swear an affidavit, put in an affidavit; take one's Bible oath, kiss the book, vow, vitam impendere vero; swear till one is black in the face, swear till one is blue in the face, swear till all's blue; be sworn, call Heaven to witness; vouch, warrant, certify, assure, swear by bell book and candle. |
Evidence | Bear witness; Noun: give evidence; Noun: testify, depose, witness, vouch for; sign, seal, undersign, set one's hand and seal, sign and seal, deliver as one's act and deed, certify, attest; acknowledge; (assent). |
Laxity | Dethrone, depose; abdicate. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Depose |
| English words defined with "depose": Brownist ♦ Decardinalize, Deposing, Disenthrone, Disfriar, Dispope ♦ Exauthorate ♦ Unmitre, Unsheriff. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "depose": Dogmatic Facts. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "depose": Disfriar. (references) |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Economic History | Pakistan | Although General Musharraf was out of the country at the time, the Army moved quickly to depose Sharif. (references) |
Kyrgyzstan | On August 19, 1991, when the State Committee for the State of Emergency (SCSE) assumed power in Moscow, there was an attempt to depose Akayev in Kyrgyzstan. (references) | |
Cuba (09/01) | Fidel Castro, who was running for a seat in the Chamber of Representatives, circulated a petition to depose Batista's government on the grounds that it had illegitimately suspended the electoral process. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Depose" is generally used as a lexical verb (infinitive) -- approximately 89.13% of the time. "Depose" is used about 46 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 89.13% | 41 | 53,521 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 10.87% | 5 | 157,705 |
| Total | 100.00% | 46 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
depose | 18 |
depose modele | 5 |
depose italy | 4 |
brevet depose | 2 |
brevete depose sgdg | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "depose"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Afrikaan | afsit (amputate, deposit, deprive, dismiss, halt, put off, shut, shut off, stop, switch, switch off, take, take off, turn off). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | shkakrkoj (detrain), rrëzoj (blow, bring down, chop down, defeat, demolish, depolarise, destroy, dethrone, disenthrone, dismount, disprove, down, drop, eradiate, fail, fell, floor, kill, knock out, overthrow, plough, plow, pull down, pull over, push down, push over, rase, raze, rebut, sink, spill, wreck). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | عزل (cut off, deposition, disengage, displacement, excommunicate, excommunication, gaol, insulate, isolate, isolation, jail, recall, relegate, seclude, segregate, segregation, sequester, taboo), خلع (deposition, discharge, dislocate, extraction, luxate, luxation, put out, slip, slip off, socket, strip, take off, yank), شهد مقسما. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | свалям от длъжност, давам показания под клетва (verify). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 废除 (Abolish, Abolished, Abolishing, Abolishment, Abrogative, Deposed, Deposing, Extinguishment, Quash, Quashed, Quashing), 免職 (degradation). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | svrhnout z trùnu, sesadit (eject). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | van de troon stoten, onttronen, afzetten (amputate, amputation, arrest, cordoning off operation, cut off, deposit, deprive, dismiss, fit out, fleece, garnish, isolate, put off, shut off, shutdown, shutting down, stop, switch off, take off, trim, turn off). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Esperanto | detronigi. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | معزول کردن (Deprive, Eject, Recall), عزل نمودن , خلع کردن (Dethrone). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | panna viralta (discharge, remove from office). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | destituer (demote), déposer (deposit, deposit copies), attester. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | entthronen (dethrone, to dethrone), entheben (relieve, relieve of). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | εκθρονίζω (dethrone). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | tanúsít (attest, authenticate, certify, testify, to attest, to depose, to evidence, to evince, to give evidence of sg, to manifest, to vouch, vouch, witness), megerõsít (approve, attach, beef up, brace, confirm, consolidate, corroborate, defilade, fasten, fix, fortify, harden, homologate, man, reinforce, strengthen, underpin, uphold, verify, vouch), lemondat (to depose). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | destituire (cashier, discharge, dismiss), deporre (deposit, discard, file, give evidence, give up, lay, remove, renounce, testify, throw down), testimoniare (attest, bear witness, certify witness, give evidence, record, sire, testify, to depose evidence, to give evidence, witness, witnesses). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | ymmyrkey feanish (attest), prowal (assay, demonstrate, demonstration, deposition, establishment, fit on, proof, prove, proving, test, trial, trial attempt, try, try on, try out), cur ass oik, brishey (bankrupt, bankruptcy, break, breakage, burst, cash, cashier, change money, contravention, crash, decode, disbar, dismiss, dismissal, failure, fracture, go back, infringement, interrupt, interruption, pick, raise, repulse, ruin, small change, stump, violation, wane). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Norwegian | vitne, avsette. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | eposeday destituir (deprive, dismiss, dispose of, drive away, oust, sack, unseat), depor (declare, defrock, depone, discursive, put down, put off, state, take off, unseat), testemunhar (bear witness, bring evidence to, depone, nuncupation, testify). (various references) detrona (dethrone, discrown, unthrone), destitui (discharge, dismiss, displace, remove), da afarã (boot out, boot round, brush off, cashier, cast up, chuck out, discharge, dismiss, drop, ejaculate, expel, fire, give notice, kick out, order out, oust, pack off, put out, sack, throw out), face depoziţie. (various references) свергать (cast down, dethrone, overthrow, subvert, subverting). (various references) svrgnuti (displace, oust, throw down, unmake), svrći, saslušati pod zakletvom. (various references) destituir (cashier, destitute, dismiss, displace, recall, remove), deponer (depone, lay down). (various references) vittna under ed, avsätta från ämbete. (various references) yeminli şahitlik etmek, tahttan indirmek (dethrone, unthrone), ifade vermek (bear testimony to, declare, testify), görevden almak (deprive, discharge, dismiss, divest, remove, unseat), azletmek (dismiss), şahitlik etmek (bear witness, testify, witness). (various references) усувати (abolish, brush aside, castigate, dethrone, displace, eliminate, obviate, preclude, put away, smooth, smooth away, take off, vanish), скидати (bare, cast, cast down, cast off, deduct, deject, detrude, dismount, dump, jettison, kick off, lay off, precipitate, remove, shuck off, subvert, throw down, throw off, toss), свідчити під присягою, твердити (affirm, allege, argue, assert, aver, avouch, claim, predicate, say), знімати (bare, dismantle, dismount, doff, draw off, get off, skim, take down, take off, uncover). (various references) diorseddu (dethrone). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Date | Source | Isaiah Chapter 22, Verse 19 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | Kai afaireqhsh ek thV oikonomiaV sou kai ek thV stasewV sou |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Et expellam te de statione tua et de ministerio tuo deponam te |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | And I shal putte thee out fro thi stonding, and fro thi seruyse I shal depose thee. |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | And I will drive thee from thy station, and from thy state shall he pull thee down. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | And I will drive thee from thy station, and from thy state shall he pull thee down. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | And I will have you forced out of your place of authority, and pulled down from your position. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Isaiah Chapter 22, Verse 19 |
| Cebuano | Ug papahawaon ko ikaw gikan sa imong katungdanan; ug bunloton ikaw gikan sa imong buhatan. |
| Chinese | 我 必 趕 逐 離 開 官 職 . 必 從 的 原 位 ' 下 。 |
| Croatian | Lišit æu te tvoje službe, otjerat te sa tvog mjesta; |
| Danish | Jeg støder dig bort fra din Stilling og styrter dig fra din Post. |
| Dutch | En Ik zal u afstoten van uw staat, en van uw stand zal Hij u verstoren. |
| Finnish | Minä syöksen sinut pois paikastasi; hän kukistaa sinut asemastasi. |
| French | Je te chasserai de ton poste, L`Éternel t`arrachera de ta place. |
| German | Und ich will dich von deinem Stande stürzen, und von deinem Amt will ich dich setzen. |
| Haitian Creole | M'ap kase ou nan plas kote ou ye a, m'ap fè ou desann soti kote ou chita a. |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Sebab itu engkau akan Kupecat dari jabatanmu dan Kuturunkan dari pangkatmu yang tinggi. |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Demikianlah Aku akan memecatkan dikau dari pada jawatanmu, demikianlah diruntuhkannya engkau dari pada pangkatmu itu! |
| Maori | Ka peia atu hoki koe e ahau i tou turanga, ka turakina iho ano koe e ia i tou wahi. |
| Norwegian | Jeg vil støte dig bort fra din post, og fra din plass skal du bli kastet ned. |
| Portuguese | E demitir-te-ei do teu posto; e da tua categoria serás derrubado. |
| Rumanian | Vei fi izgonit din dregqtoria ta, wi te va smulge Domnul din locul tqu. |
| Swedish | Ja, jag skall stöta dig bort ifrån din plats, och från din tjänst skall du bliva avsatt. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "depose": deposed, deposer, deposers, deposes. (additional references) | |
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"Depose" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: debole, debone, D'ecosse, Delozier, Demoze, Denpasar, Deosil, deossum, depas, depase, depense, depezay, depise, depoisson, Depone, depower, Depse, Depuis, despose, Dexpo, Dieppoise, diose, Doopsey, dopose, epose. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "depose" (pronounced dupō"z) |
| 4 | -u p ō" z | juxtapose, oppose, presuppose, propose, suppose. |
| 3 | -p ō" z | compose, decompose, dispose, expose, impose, interpose, overexpose, pose, pows, predispose, reimpose, repose, superimpose, transpose. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: epodes, speedo. | |
| Words within the letters "d-e-e-o-p-s" | |
-1 letter: deeps, dopes, epode, pedes, posed, speed, spode. | |
-2 letters: deep, dees, does, dope, dose, epos, odes, oped, opes, peds, peed, pees, peso, pods, pose, seed, seep, sped. | |
-3 letters: dee, doe, dos, eds, ode, ods, oes, ope, ops, ose, ped, pee, pes, pod, see, sod, sop. | |
-4 letters: de, do, ed, es, od, oe, op, os, pe. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-e-e-o-p-s" | |
+1 letter: depones, deposed, deposer, deposes, episode, exposed, reposed, seedpod, speedos, spondee. | |
+2 letters: adoptees, deplores, deposers, develops, dopester, epidotes, episodes, epoxides, espoused, estopped, explodes, eyedrops, outspeed, peasecod, pentodes, poetised, precodes, proceeds, seedpods, sheepdog, spondees. | |
+3 letters: bespoused, codpieces, decompose, decouples, deplorers, deponents, deportees, deposited, depressor, desperado, despoiled, despoiler, desponded, developes, dispeople, dopeheads, dopesters, douzepers, eavesdrop, endoscope, endosperm, endospore, escaloped, exploders, exposited, geepounds, hedgehops, lepidotes, megapodes, opalesced, oppressed, outspeeds, overspend, peasecods, pensioned, pereopods, peroxides, pledgeors, podomeres, pokeweeds, ponderers, pondweeds, possessed, powderers, preorders, prescored, preshowed, presoaked, presorted, processed, professed, prosected, prospered, proteides, protested, redeploys, redeposit, redispose, reexposed, reimposed, reopposed, reposited, responded, responder, respotted, sheepdogs, sheepfold, speedboat, spodumene, stoppered, torpedoes, unexposed. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)44 65 70 6F 73 65 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-.. . .--. --- ... . |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000100 01100101 01110000 01101111 01110011 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)D e p o s e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0044 0065 0070 006F 0073 0065 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)387182818571 |
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