depose
verb (used with object)
to remove from office or position, especially high office.
was deposing
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past progressiveof depose.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
Example Sentences
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Manly first heard about Ramos in the late 1990s, when he was deposing then-Orange Bishop Norman McFarland — who presided over my First Communion — in another sex abuse case.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 25, 2024
“Steven said, ‘It felt like he was deposing me.’
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 21, 2022
He was deposing a divine order of immutable categories; he was also dissolving a sacral boundary that had separated the animal from the human.
From New York Times ● Mar. 18, 2010
While John was deposing the emperor, the emperor caused John to be deposed by the clergy, nobility, and citizens of Rome.
From The Power Of The Popes by Pierre Claude Fran?ois Daunou
