witness
wit nuhs
- n someone who sees an event and reports what happened
- n a close observer; someone who looks at something (such as an exhibition of some kind)
- n testimony by word or deed to your religious faith
- n (law) a person who attests to the genuineness of a document or signature by adding their own signature
- n (law) a person who testifies under oath in a court of law
- v be a witness to
She witnessed the accident and had to testify in court - v perceive or be contemporaneous with
- In the summer of 1948, a squat, rumpled man took the witness stand before the House Un-American Activities Committee and made a series of accusations that changed the temper of .
- Gore's first witness gets cut up in cross-examination .
- Only a handful of states--including Vermont, Wisconsin and Minnesota--have "duty to assist" laws requiring those who witness a crime to offer aid and report it.