v., -poned, -pon·ing, -pones. v.tr.
To depose.
v.intr.
To give testimony by affidavit or deposition.
[Middle English deponen, from Medieval Latin dēpōnere, from Latin, to put down : dē-, de- + pōnere, to put.]
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