EVIDENCE


Meaning of EVIDENCE in English

(~s, evidencing, ~d)

Frequency: The word is one of the 1500 most common words in English.

1.

Evidence is anything that you see, experience, read, or are told that causes you to believe that something is true or has really happened.

Ganley said he’d seen no ~ of widespread fraud...

There is a lot of ~ that stress is partly responsible for disease...

N-UNCOUNT: oft N of/for n, N that, N to-inf

2.

Evidence is the information which is used in a court of law to try to prove something. Evidence is obtained from documents, objects, or witnesses. (LEGAL)

The ~ against him was purely circumstantial.

...enough ~ for a successful prosecution.

N-UNCOUNT: oft N against n

3.

If you give ~ in a court of law or an official enquiry, you officially say what you know about people or events, or describe an occasion at which you were present.

The forensic scientists who carried out the original tests will be called to give ~...

= testify

PHRASE: V inflects

4.

If a particular feeling, ability, or attitude is ~d by something or someone, it is seen or felt. (FORMAL)

He’s wise in other ways too, as ~d by his reason for switching from tennis to golf...

She was not calculating and ~d no specific interest in money.

VERB: be V-ed by n, V n

5.

If someone or something is in ~, they are present and can be clearly seen.

Few soldiers were in ~...

PHRASE: V inflects

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