eyewitness
eyewitness
Definition
eye·wit·ness (-wit′nis)
noun
- a person who sees or has seen something happen, as an accident, crime, etc.
- a person who testifies to what he or she has seen
eyewitness
Synonyms
eyewitness
Law Definition
n
An individual
who saw the occurrence of an event and may be called upon to testify about it
in court.
eyewitness
Usage Examples
Converse of object
- interview: When Taylor and Prentice heard the news they quickly returned to St. Peter's Field and began interviewing eyewitnesses.
- say: People sat in the corners, men and women, and just cried and cried, ' said an eyewitness.
- have: I did have eyewitnesses: Donald's Eastern European admin team.
- survive: All known sites where bombs landed have been charted and interviews with surviving eyewitnesses are included.
- become: Four other persons became eyewitnesses to the UFO, which was seen about four miles East of the Marshall Steam Plant near Terrell.
Converse of subject
- write: And the Koran was written by a genuine eyewitness - Muhammad.
Adjective modifier
- other: Other eyewitnesses who might be interested in participating in our study.
- only: He cites much medical opinion that only eyewitnesses could have observed that.
Modifies a noun
- testimony: First, there is still the eyewitness testimony of 1 Cor.
- account: Two people have left us eyewitness accounts of the fire.
- identification: Characteristics of eyewitness identification that predict the outcome of real lineups.
- report: The book includes eyewitness reports of the last of these in 1953.
- evidence: Despite the eyewitness evidence George insists they got the wrong man.
- memory: How schemas affect eyewitness memory over repeated retrieval attempts.
Noun used with modifier
- volcano: We then had a toss up between the shark and the volcano eyewitness book, and the volcano won out.
Possessives
- account: Mrs X was understandably concerned by the discrepancy between the Trust's and the eyewitnesses ' accounts of the time the ambulance arrived.
Preposition: of
- event: The writers of the four Gospels either had themselves been witnesses or else were relating the accounts of eyewitnesses of the actual events.
- resurrection: They alone were eyewitnesses of the Resurrection and commissioned as Apostles and their apostolate was confirmed in their spiritual effectiveness.
- ministry: Many of the leaders of the Church in Rome were killed, including eyewitnesses of the ministry of Jesus.
