1a. To remove from office or power. b. To dethrone. 2.Lawa. To state or affirm in a deposition or by affidavit. b. To take a deposition from: Investigators will depose the witness behind closed doors.3. To put or lay down; deposit.
INTRANSITIVE VERB:
Law To give a deposition; testify.
ETYMOLOGY:
Middle English deposen, from Old French deposer, alteration (influenced by poser, to put) of Latin dpnere, to put down; see depone.