depose

Other forms of depose

past tense

deposed·

present participle

deposing·

third person

deposes·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about depose

What does depose mean?

depose means "force to leave (an office)". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in depose?

depose has 2 syllables: de-pose. The stress falls on "pose". In IPA it is /dɪˈpoʊz/.

What is another word for depose?

Close synonyms include force out, swear, depone. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is depose a common word?

depose is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with depose?

13 words rhyme with depose. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.