depone

From Latin depono (“lay down, deposit, entrust”).

• Rhymes: -əʊn

depone (third-person singular simple present depones, present participle deponing, simple past and past participle deponed)

1. (intransitive, law) To testify, especially in the form of a deposition.
2. (transitive, law) To take the deposition of; to depose.
3. (transitive) To lay, as a stake; to wager.

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4. (transitive) To lay down.

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• Pedone, opened

depone

1. third-person singular present indicative of deporre

• pedone

dēpōne

1. second-person singular present active imperative of dēpōnō

depone

1. Formal second-person singular (usted) present indicative form of deponer.
2. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present indicative form of deponer.