depose

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. v. To remove from office or power.
2. v. To dethrone.
3. v. Law To state or affirm in a deposition or by affidavit.
4. v. Law To take a deposition from: Investigators will depose the witness behind closed doors.
5. v. To put or lay down; deposit.
6. v. Law To give a deposition; testify.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. To lay down; let fall; deposit.
2. To lay aside.
3. To remove; eject; evict.
4. To remove from office, especially from royalty, or from high executive, ecclesiastical, or judicial office; dethrone; divest of office: as, to depose a king or a bishop.
5. To take away; strip off (from one); divest (one of).
6. To testify to; attest.
7. To examine on oath; take the deposition of.
8. To bear witness.
9. Specifically To give testimony on oath; especially, to give testimony which is embodied in writing in a deposition or an affidavit; give answers to interrogatories intended as evidence in a court: as, he deposed to the following facts; the witness deposes and says that, etc.

Wiktionary

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

GNU Webster's 1913

1. v. To lay down; to divest one's self of; to lay aside.
2. v. To let fall; to deposit.
3. v. To remove from a throne or other high station; to dethrone; to divest or deprive of office.
4. v. To testify under oath; to bear testimony to; -- now usually said of bearing testimony which is officially written down for future use.
5. v. To put under oath.
6. v. To bear witness; to testify under oath; to make deposition.

WordNet 3.0

1. v. force to leave (an office)
2. v. make a deposition; declare under oath