eyewitness

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See also: eye-witness and eye witness

English

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Etymology

eye +‎ witness

Noun

eyewitness (plural eyewitnesses)

  1. Someone who sees an event and can report or testify about it.
    • 1915, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Return of Tarzan:
      And the girl's fate he could picture as plainly as though he were an eyewitness to it.

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Verb

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  1. To be present at an event, and see it