# depose

> English word · Verb · IPA /dɪˈpəʊz/ · frequency rank #43,107

## Definitions
1. To put down; to lay down; to deposit; to lay aside; to put away.
2. To remove (a leader) from (high) office without killing (them).
3. To give evidence or testimony, especially in response to interrogation during a deposition.
4. To interrogate and elicit testimony from during a deposition, typically by a lawyer.
5. To take or swear an oath.
6. To testify; to bear witness; to claim; to assert; to affirm.

## Etymology
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.

## Easily confused with
- **dose** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/depose-vs-dose)
- **depot** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/depose-vs-depot)
- **Devos** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/depose-vs-devos)
- **devote** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/depose-vs-devote)
- **devise** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/depose-vs-devise)
- **dipole** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/depose-vs-dipole)
- **deposit** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/depose-vs-deposit)
- **dispose** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/depose-vs-dispose)
- **despise** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/depose-vs-despise)
- **dense** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/dense-vs-depose)
- **demos** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/demos-vs-depose)
- **demise** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/demise-vs-depose)
- **Denise** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/denise-vs-depose)
- **denote** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/denote-vs-depose)
- **deport** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/deport-vs-depose)
- **decode** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/decode-vs-depose)
- **defuse** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/defuse-vs-depose)

## Common misspellings (8)
`ddepose`, `deopse`, `depoes`, `deposse`, `deppose`, `depsoe`, `dpeose`, `edpose`

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/depose