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• past tense form of depose.
• past participle of depose.

deposed

American  

[dih-pohzd] / dɪˈpoʊzd /

adjective

1. removed from high office or position.

   The musical was a political satire about a deposed king and queen forced to go incognito in their own country.

2. Law. examined under oath, sometimes with the resulting statement taken down in writing and used in court in place of spoken testimony.

   Only two of the deposed witnesses directly indicated personal knowledge of the alleged trip.

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verb

1. the simple past tense and past participle of depose.

Other Word Forms

• undeposed
  adjective

Etymology

Origin of deposed

depose ( def. ) + -ed ² ( def. )

Example Sentences

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deposed

Col Lamah caught public attention during the September 2021 coup when he was photographed in a vehicle carrying deposed President Condé.

From BBC ● Aug. 26, 2026

The tablet records a royal grant and indicates that Tiglath-pileser probably ruled from roughly 763-762 BCE before eventually being deposed.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 26, 2026

In April of last year, Barragan was deposed as part of a retaliation lawsuit filed by Garrido unrelated to the Wells Fargo case.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 4, 2026

He played a key role in persuading Trump during his first term to back off plans to remove U.S. troops from Syria, ruled at the time by Bashar al-Assad, who was later deposed.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 13, 2026

The Igbo were, after all, a people who deposed gods that had outlived their usefulness.

From "Half of a Yellow Sun" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie