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eyewitness Definition

eye·wit·ness (-wit′nis)

noun

  1. a person who sees or has seen something happen, as an accident, crime, etc.
  2. a person who testifies to what he or she has seen

eyewitness Synonyms

eyewitness

n.

onlooker, passerby, observer, informant; see witness.

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.

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