depose

verb6

1. •
   To remove (a leader) from (high) office without killing (them).

   • A deposed monarch may go into exile as pretender to the lost throne, hoping to be restored in a subsequent revolution.
2. •
   To interrogate and elicit testimony from during a deposition, typically by a lawyer.

   • After we deposed the claimant we had enough evidence to avoid a trial.
3. •
   To give evidence or testimony, especially in response to interrogation during a deposition.
4. •
   To testify; to bear witness; to claim; to assert; to affirm.

   • to depose the yearly rent or valuation of lands — 1598
5. •
   To take or swear an oath.
6. •
   To put down; to lay down; to deposit; to lay aside; to put away.

   • additional mud deposed upon it — 1695