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eyewitness

nounverbattested in dialogue

  • //ˈaɪˌwɪt.nəs//

Someone who sees an event and can report or testify about it.

noun

  1. 1

    Someone who sees an event and can report or testify about it.

    And the girl's fate he could picture as plainly as though he were an eyewitness to it.

    The evidence of eyewitnesses and the distance travelled after the initial derailment confirmed that the train was travelling at 45 to 50 m.p.h. as it became derailed.

    There was no eyewitness report or independent confirmation for the strike near the town of Mareesa that was also reported by the Dubai-based Al-Arabiya television network.

Etymology

From eye + witness.

verb

  1. 1

    To be present at an event or incident, and see and observe it.

Forms

plural
eyewitnesses
past tense
eyewitnessed
past participle
eyewitnessed
present participle
eyewitnessing
third person singular
eyewitnesses
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).