Synonyms for depose
Synonyms by meaning
Verb
1. Testify — to testify; to bear witness; to claim; to assert; to affirm
testify, swear, declare, allege, bear witness, affirm, depone, aver, assert, avow, asseverate
2. Dethrone
dethrone, oust, displace, unseat, dismiss, deprive, force out, bring down, put out, break, degrade, cashier, uncrown, disenthrone, unsceptre UK, unscepter US, eject, discharge, unthrone, discrown, unking dated, exauthorate dated
Other
Definitions
- v. 1
To testify; to bear witness; to claim; to assert; to affirm.
- v. 2
To put down; to lay down; to deposit; to lay aside; to put away.
Related words
- Word family
- deposal deponent deposit deposition
Forms
- Past participle
- deposed
e.g. deposed → testified, sweared, declared, alleged…
Choose the right word
In legal usage, affirm has a general agreement with depose and testify; it differs from swear in not invoking the name of God.
J. C. Fernald, English Synonyms and Antonyms (1914)
Example sentences
- declare I hereby declare the opening of the Olympic Games.
- testify Tom seems to be unwilling to testify against Mary.
- affirm It's not a therapist's business to affirm a kid's identity.
- allege I allege that you are wrong, so I don't want to say a word anymore.
- oust They wanted to oust the communist government of Fidel Castro.
- dethrone China and Russia want to dethrone the US.
By length
- 4 letters
- oust1, aver2, avow2
- 5 letters
- break1, swear1, eject2
- 6 letters
- assert2, allege2, affirm2, unseat2, depone, unking
- 7 letters
- declare2, dismiss2, testify3, cashier2, degrade2, deprive2, uncrown, reposit
- 8 letters
- displace2, dethrone2, unthrone, discrown
- 9 letters
- discharge2, unsceptre, unscepter
- 10 letters
- asseverate
- 11 letters
- disenthrone, exauthorate
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (aver2 = 2 syllables).