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Depose vs Repose - What's the difference?

depose | repose |

As verbs the difference between depose and repose

is that depose is to put down; to lay down; to deposit; to lay aside; to put away while repose is to lie at rest; to rest.

As a noun repose is

rest, sleep.

depose

English

Verb

(depos)
  • (literally) To put down; to lay down; to deposit; to lay aside; to put away.
  • * Woodword
    • additional mud deposed upon it
  • To remove (a leader) from (high) office, without killing the incumbent.
    • A deposed monarch may go into exile as pretender to the lost throne, hoping to be restored in a subsequent revolution.
  • * Prynne
    • a tyrant over his subjects, and therefore worthy to be deposed
  • (legal) To give evidence or testimony, especially in response to interrogation during a deposition
  • (legal) To interrogate and elicit testimony from during a deposition; typically done by a lawyer.
    • After we deposed the claimant we had enough evidence to avoid a trial.
  • * Shakespeare
    • Depose him in the justice of his cause.
  • To take or swear an oath.
  • To testify; to bear witness; to claim; to assert; to affirm.
  • * Francis Bacon
    • to depose the yearly rent or valuation of lands

    Synonyms

    * declare

    Antonyms

    * restore

    Derived terms

    * deposable * deposal

    Related terms

    * deponent * deposit * deposition * depositio de bene esse

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    repose

    English

    Noun

  • (dated) rest, sleep
  • * 1908 ,
    • Dark and deserted as it was, the night was full of small noises, song and chatter and rustling, telling of the busy little population who were up and about, plying their trades and vocations through the night till sunshine should fall on them at last and send them off to their well-earned repose .
  • *
    • You would not rob us of our repose , would you, comrades? You would not have us too tired to carry out our duties?
  • quietness, ease; peace, calmness
  • * Dante Divine Comedy,Inferno, Canto 10
    • So may thy lineage find at last repose I thus adjured him
  • (geology) period between eruptions of a volcano.

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    Verb

  • To lie at rest; to rest.
  • * Chapman
    • Within a thicket I reposed .
  • To lie; to be supported.
    • trap reposing on sand
  • To lay, to set down.
  • * Chapman
    • But these thy fortunes let us straight repose / In this divine cave's bosom.
  • * Woodward
    • Pebbles reposed in those cliffs amongst the earth are left behind.
  • To place, have, or rest; to set; to entrust.
  • * Shakespeare
    • The king reposeth all his confidence in thee.
  • To reside in something.
  • (figuratively) To remain or abide restfully without anxiety or alarms.
  • * I. Taylor
    • It is upon these that the soul may repose .

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