(v. t.) To lay down; to divest one's self of; to lay aside.
(v. t.) To let fall; to deposit.
(v. t.) To remove from a throne or other high station; to dethrone; to divest or deprive of office.
(v. t.) To testify under oath; to bear testimony to; -- now usually said of bearing testimony which is officially written down for future use.
(v. t.) To put under oath.
(v. i.) To bear witness; to testify under oath; to make deposition.
Example Sentences:
(1) Following escalating violence against protestors, in February the peaceful protest camp was cleared by riot police, resulting in at least 88 deaths in 48 hours; Yanukovych was later deposed, ahead of Russia's move on Crimea.
(2) The board of Tata deposed Mistry for several reasons – including a clash of cultures – but it was further unsettled by his plan to offload all or part of the UK steel business.
(3) Labour was further troubled by local splits, including a row over a planned academy school in Preston, which saw the council education chair deposed and then fought and beaten in the poll by the local party's constituency chair.
(4) Public protest has been all but banned by a law enacted in November 2013 that formed part of the harsh response to the protests that deposed Hosni Mubarak in 2011 and Mohammed Morsi in July 2013 .
(5) Since Sisi deposed Morsi last July following days of mass demonstrations, at least 16,000 Egyptian dissidents have been arrested, and thousands killed during protests .
(6) The deposed leader was due to meet leftwing allies in Nicaragua today for an emergency summit likely to be dominated by Zelaya's mentor, the Venezuelan president, Hugo Chávez .
(7) Most of those who have “disappeared” are supporters of Mohamed Morsi, the democratically elected Muslim Brotherhood president who was deposed in July 2013 and eventually replaced by president Abdel-Fatah al-Sisi.
(8) 11.59pm BST Summary Welcome to our continued coverage of a monumental day in Egypt, that has seen President Mohamed Morsi deposed and an interim government installed.
(9) The biggest challenge of his prime ministership will be how he keeps the voters’ faith in his conviction-politician credibility, and also the faith of the party room who elected him and could depose him at any time – just like they did last time.
(10) Prayuth has enacted sweeping changes in the four days since he deposed the democratically elected government.
(11) Many who instinctively preferred King came to see him as the only heavy hitter capable of deposing Johnson (even King herself admits that, as time passed, Livingstone grew stronger).
(12) The centre of the subretinal depositis, and therefore the highest point of retinal detachment (3 dioptres), appears white.
(13) Malcolm Turnbull warned of the long-term costs of the policy in a speech to parliament after he was deposed as leader because of his support for an emissions trading scheme, when he said Direct Action style schemes were “a recipe for fiscal recklessness on a grand scale”.
(14) With billions of dollars worth of assets of Muammar Gaddafi frozen by the UN and member countries, and other legal moves to recover the wealth of deposed autocrats such as Tunisia's Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali and Egypt's Hosni Mubarak, the drive to seize billions plundered by corrupt leaders has never been higher.
(15) But the political establishment has not been deposed: the Conservatives will continue governing “There were people turning up who had never voted before,” Straw said after the defeat.
(16) But the idea that disappointed Labour moderates should even be thinking about deposing Mr Corbyn any time in the foreseeable future is an offence to democracy.
(17) But instead of deposing the president, they should have forced through a referendum on early presidential elections; that would still have protected the country from the unraveling, and it would have preserved the idea of democracy.
(18) Devout Muslims consider it a sacrilege for infidels to depose a Muslim tyrant and occupy Muslim lands — no matter how well intentioned the infidels or malevolent the tyrant.
(19) Two of Blair’s close New Labour allies, Lord Mandelson and Alastair Campbell, countered claims that they had taken soundings from a potential replacement leader at the height of a plot to depose Miliband.
(20) Britain lacked the will to depose him and much of the world gave mere lip service to sanctions.
Unseat
Definition:
(v. t.) To throw from one's seat; to deprive of a seat.
(v. t.) Specifically, to deprive of the right to sit in a legislative body, as for fraud in election.
Example Sentences:
(1) James, who is an MEP for south-east England, was responsible for one of Ukip’s great near-misses, coming within 2,000 votes of unseating the Lib Dems at the Eastleigh by-election in 2013 in a result that shocked political observers.
(2) She has beaten Jeremy Hunt in the courts but Dr Louise Irvine is now determined to unseat the health secretary at the ballot box.
(3) As early as last winter Israelis were privately talking about messages from the new military authorities in Egypt to the effect that now was the best time to attack Gaza and unseat Hamas .
(4) Despite his bullish defiance over the weekend following his re-election – blaming US investigators and the British media for trying to unseat him – Blatter cut a diminished figure following a day of speculation over the fate of his right-hand man Valcke.
(5) As the aftershock spread through French political circles, François Hollande, who unseated Sarkozy as president after just one term in office in 2012, cautioned that the "independence of the justice system" and the "presumption of innocence" must prevail.
(6) The April sun beats down as hundreds of supporters wait at a west side church to hear Jesús “Chuy” García, the county commissioner and former legislator who is looking to unseat Chicago mayor Rahm Emanuel .
(7) Earlier foolish talk about a rapid attempt to unseat him has evaporated.
(8) China has become increasingly diligent about quashing critical voices, apparently fearful that they could spark protests like those that unseated autocrats in Egypt, Tunisia and Libya last year.
(9) The government will file a lawsuit seeking to unseat Lau Siu-lai, Nathan Law, Edward Yiu and Leung Kwok-hung by declaring their oaths of office invalid, local media reported .
(10) That is a resounding rebuke for Berlusconi -- whose efforts to unseat Letta appear to have turned sour.
(11) Based more on disappointment in McConnell than Bevin's promise (or crazy talk), his otherwise quixotic campaign (unseating a five-term minority leader) has gotten national attention and support from the likes of the Senate Conservative Fund (early backers of Cruz and Lee, as well as Cotton) and Palin.
(12) Nigeria’s election winner, Muhammadu Buhari, congratulated the outgoing president, Goodluck Jonathan , for peacefully relinquishing power on Wednesday, a day after becoming the first Nigerian politician to unseat a sitting leader at the ballot box.
(13) Its “Jasmine revolution” in 2011 unseated a corrupt dictator relatively peacefully and ushered in a transition to democratic elections and habits.
(14) As the move to unseat Abbott grew – with deep underlying grievances brought to the surface by his widely ridiculed decision to grant Prince Philip a knighthood – the prime minister ditched the government’s commitment to continuing budget cuts but apparently changed his position on a major defence acquisition to win votes in the shipbuilding state of South Australia.
(15) There is concern among Corbyn supporters that a poor showing in elections in May could lead to attempts to unseat him.
(16) I am not going to tread on private (and public) grief in the case of Miliband, other than to say that, when saddled with a leader they regard as a loser, the Tories traditionally have no scruples in unseating the incumbent.
(17) When Mhairi Black , the 20-year-old student who unseated Douglas Alexander, made her victory speech, she denounced austerity, the bedroom tax and Trident.
(18) But because we don’t have any option most probably people will elect the ruling party.” The formerly rebel EPRDF, a coalition of four regional parties, came to power in 1991 by unseating a military regime.
(19) The Ukip success in Lincolnshire saw the party's Richard Fairman unseat Eddy Poll, the Tory deputy leader in Spalding.
(20) The apparent rationale is that abrasion should unseat comedones and deter their formation.