bystander Definition
by·stander (bī′stan′dər)
noun
a person who stands near but does not participate; mere onlooker
bystander Synonyms
bystander Usage Examples
Converse of object
- kill: Apparently the bomb missed Qadaffi but killed several innocent bystanders.
- injure: Imagine the damages for a valuable horse with serious injury injuring a wealthy bystander.
- ask: He asks a bystander, " Is that Mary Shelley?
- include: Of these, 35 were the victims of killings that amounted to extra-judicial executions, including nine bystanders at the scene of such assassinations.
- hit: I think I managed to hit a few bystanders with the mud too!
- remain: Jeremy Paxman's back and talks to Michael Portillo a bit more, with Lord Falconer and Shirley Williams remaining virtual bystanders.
Preposition: at
scene: Nobody need be a bystander at the scene of an accident.
Adjective modifier
- innocent: Secondly, innocent bystanders will play a huge part in Hell's Highway.
- passive: But civil society and the rest of the world are not passive bystanders in the process.
- mere: The police officers in the present case were more than mere bystanders.
- interested: Meanwhile, Sawyer is an amused but highly interested bystander when tension escalates between Jack, Locke, Kate and Ana Lucia.
- several: Move several bystanders on and also to redirect cars leaving the car park to give a wide berth of the landing site.
- other: But the subject seemed to arrest him, and he whispered some inquiries of the other bystanders, and remained listening.
Modifies a noun
- exposure: The RCEP is also completing a special report on bystander exposure to pesticides, which was launched in September 2005.
- effect: The bystander effect comes into play at this stage.
- response: Further studies have determined the role of cell cycle phase on the degree of bystander response induced.
- apathy: Social Proof Part 3: What to do if you are mugged Consider the well known phenomena of ' bystander apathy ' .
- behavior: Using a combination of quantitative and qualitative methods the project explored the importance of both group memberships and group norms for bystander behavior.
- intervention: The research integrated classic work on bystander intervention with more recent developments in the social psychology of group behavior.
Preposition: in
process: But civil society and the rest of the world are not passive bystanders in the process.
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