deposing

Meaning of deposing

verb, gerund or present participle
  1. remove from office suddenly and forcefully.
    he had been deposed by a military coup
  2. testify to or give (evidence) under oath, typically in a written statement.
    every affidavit shall state which of the facts deposed to are within the deponent's knowledge

Middle English: from Old French deposer, from Latin deponere (see deponent), but influenced by Latin depositus and Old French poser ‘to place’.

Information about deposing

  • It is a verb.
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Hyphenation of deposing

de-pos-ing

  • It consists of 3 syllables and 8 chars.
  • deposing is a word trisyllabic because it has three syllables

deposing synonyms

Meaning remove forcibly from power:

overthrow

Meaning tip (something) over so that it is on its side or upside down:

overturn

Meaning remove (a government or person in authority) from power; overthrow:

topple

Meaning dismiss from a job:

remove

Meaning remove (a government or person in authority) from power:

unseat

Meaning remove from a position of authority or dominance:

dethrone

Meaning supersede and replace:

supplant

Meaning remove (someone) from a job or position of authority:

displace

Meaning order or allow to leave; send away:

dismiss

Meaning tell (someone) officially that they can or must leave a place or situation:

discharge

Meaning drive out or expel (someone) from a position or place:

oust

Meaning officially make (someone) leave a school or other organization:

expel

Meaning force or throw (something) out in a violent or sudden way:

eject

Meaning move (someone) to a lower position or rank, usually as a punishment:

demote

Meaning a person handling payments and receipts in a shop, bank, or business:

cashier

Meaning dismiss from employment:

sack

Meaning dismiss (an employee) from a job:

fire

Meaning end, cancel, or dismiss suddenly and ruthlessly:

axe

Meaning throw (someone) out of a window:

defenestrate

Meaning make a solemn statement or promise undertaking to do something or affirming that something is the case:

swear

Meaning give evidence as a witness in a law court:

testify

Meaning provide or serve as clear evidence of:

attest

Meaning commit oneself to and begin (an enterprise or responsibility); take on:

undertake

Meaning state a fact or belief confidently and forcefully:

assert

Meaning formally announce the beginning of (a state or condition):

declare

Meaning claim that one has (a quality or feeling), especially when this is not the case:

profess

Meaning state or assert to be the case:

aver

Meaning accept or yield to a superior force or to the authority or will of another person:

submit

Meaning state or assert that something is the case, typically without providing evidence or proof:

claim

Meaning declare or state solemnly or emphatically:

asseverate

Meaning be entitled or appointed to act or speak for (someone), especially in an official capacity:

represent

Anagrams of deposing

dipsogen, disponge, pidgeons

Words that rhyme with deposing

sing, Christmasing, Dephasing, abasing, abrasing, aliasing, antialiasing, appeasing, basing, biasing, brainteasing, canvasing, carcasing, casing, ceasing, chasing, creasing, databasing, debasing, deceasing, decreasing, degreasing, dephasing, discasing, diseasing, displeasing, dyscrasing, easing, embasing, encasing, enchasing, encreasing, erasing, feasing, freebasing, goliasing, greasing, imbasing, impleasing, incasing, inchasing, increasing, interchasing, lasing, leasing, liasing, lowercasing, masing, measing, metaphrasing

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