Verb
To lay down; to divest one's self of; to lay aside.
To let fall; to deposit.
To remove from a throne or other high station; to dethrone; to divest or deprive of office.
To testify under oath; to bear testimony to; -- now usually said of bearing testimony which is officially written down for future use.
To put under oath.
To bear witness; to testify under oath; to make deposition.
Source: Webster's dictionaryI've been in contact with Marshal Badoglio. We agree that Italy must be saved from the abyss toward which Fascism is driving her. If we depose Mussolini, however, the new government should do nothing drastic to upset Hitler until we can secretly negotiate an armistice with the Allies. Ugo Cavallero
If your government had given me a thousandth of the sum it spent to depose me, I could have won that war. Bao Dai
I consider myself King of the Hellenes and sole expression of legality in my country until the Greek people freely decide otherwise. I fully expected that the [military] regime would depose me eventually. They are frightened of the Crown because it is a unifying force among the people. Constantine II of Greece
In the 1980s, the U.S. Army invaded two Caribbean countries, Grenada and Panama, to depose leaders who had defied Washington. Stephen Kinzer
One aim of the hostilities is a reunification of Catholics under one crown, with the rivers as the northern boundary, to reach that goal we must launch a decisive attack on Amsterdam, depose the king, and at the very least let the people decide which government it prefers. Leopold II of Belgium
Afterward, Emperor Huan employed eunuchs to depose Liang Ji, who was then forced to commit suicide. Source: Internet