(~es, ~ing, ~ed)
Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English.
1.
A ~ to an event such as an accident or crime is a person who saw it.
Witnesses to the crash say they saw an explosion just before the disaster...
No ~es have come forward.
N-COUNT: oft N to n
2.
If you ~ something, you see it happen.
Anyone who ~ed the attack should call the police...
= see
VERB: V n
3.
A ~ is someone who appears in a court of law to say what they know about a crime or other event.
In the next three or four days, eleven ~es will be called to testify.
N-COUNT: oft N for n
4.
A ~ is someone who writes their name on a document that you have signed, to confirm that it really is your signature.
N-COUNT
5.
If someone ~es your signature on a document, they write their name after it, to confirm that it really is your signature.
Ask a friend to ~ your signature.
VERB: V n
6.
If you say that a place, period of time, or person ~ed a particular event or change, you mean that it happened in that place, during that period of time, or while that person was alive.
India has ~ed many political changes in recent years...
= see
VERB: V n
7.
If a person or thing bears ~ to something, they show or say that it exists or happened. (FORMAL)
Many of these poems bear ~ to his years spent in India and China...
PHRASE: V inflects, PHR n