WITNESS


Meaning of WITNESS in English

(~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

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