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Past tense of depose

regular verb

The past tense of depose is deposed. The past participle is also deposed.

Forms of depose

Base form (V1)depose /dɪˈpəʊz/
Past tense (V2)deposed
Past participle (V3)deposed
Present participledeposing
Third person singulardeposes

Deposed in a sentence

  • A deposed monarch may go into exile as pretender to the lost throne, hoping to be restored in a subsequent revolution.
  • After we deposed the claimant we had enough evidence to avoid a trial.
  • The view that CLT deposed grammar may also stem from a tendency to equate grammar with accuracy.1999, Scott Thornbury, How to Teach Grammar, Harlow: Longman, Pearson Education, →ISBN, page 23. From the entry CLT
  • Deposed King: 'KING KNIGHT REIGNS NO MORE?2014, Yacht Club Games, Shovel Knight: Shovel of Hope, Nintendo 3DS, level/area: Village. From the entry huzzah
  • Alexander, the ancient vampire who has ruled Paris for many centuries, has been deposed by his own childe, Sir Geoffrey.2003, Janet Trautvetter, Dark Ages: Toreador, page 5. From the entry childe

Meaning of depose

  1. verb To put down; to lay down; to deposit; to lay aside; to put away.
  2. verb To remove (a leader) from (high) office without killing (them).
  3. verb To give evidence or testimony, especially in response to interrogation during a deposition.

Full definition of depose

Questions about the past tense of depose

What is the past tense of depose?
The past tense of depose is deposed.
What is the past participle of depose?
The past participle of depose is deposed.
Is depose a regular or irregular verb?
Depose is a regular verb: its past tense adds -d.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: depose (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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