take the fifth amendment

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Verb take the fifth amendment has 1 sense

take the Fifth, take the Fifth Amendment - refuse to testify by invoking the Fifth Amendment, which states that nobody may be forced to testify as a witness against himself or herself
--₁ is one way to declare
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s

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