Word of the Day: DEPOSE

Eject or unseat

depose (verb) - to remove from office or power; to declare under oath [dih-pohz]

BREAKDOWN: DE- (down) + POS- (to put or place)

• deposition is the act of ejecting from office; testimony under oath; something placed or put down

• deposition also describes the process in which sediments, soil, and rocks are added to a land mass

See also: composure, indispose, juxtaposition, predispose, posit, repose, transpose

“You may my glories and my state depose,
But not my griefs; still am I king of those.”
—William Shakespeare, Richard II