depose
verb (used with object)
to remove from office or position, especially high office.
had deposed
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past perfectof depose.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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Following elections in early 2008, Bhutto's resurgent Pakistan People's Party swept to power at the head of a governing coalition that included the party of Nawaz Sharif, whom Musharraf had deposed in 1999.
From BBC ● Feb. 5, 2023
He was reinstated only after he signed a new power-sharing agreement with the military leaders who had deposed him in the first place.
From New York Times ● Jan. 2, 2022
Instead, the El Paso County child welfare division - which in the meantime had deposed the division’s child abuse doctor in the wake of the pro-bono expert reports - dropped the case.
From Washington Times ● Feb. 16, 2020
The Military Command said it had deposed Indjai.
From Reuters ● May 31, 2012
In a move that has astonished historians since that time it asked Sir William Berkeley, the royal Governor whom its former leaders had deposed, to govern Virginia again.
From Virginia Under Charles I And Cromwell, 1625-1660 by Wilcomb E. Washburn
