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Noun witness has 5 senses
- witness, witnesser, informant - someone who sees an event and reports what happened
--1 is a kind of perceiver, observer, beholder; speaker, talker, utterer, verbalizer, verbaliser
--1 has particulars: attester, attestant; testifier, deponent
- spectator, witness, viewer, watcher, looker - a close observer; someone who looks at something (such as an exhibition of some kind); "the spectators applauded the performance"; "television viewers"; "sky watchers discovered a new star"
--2 is a kind of perceiver, observer, beholder
--2 has particulars:
- witness - testimony by word or deed to your religious faith
--3 is a kind of testimony
--3 has particulars: shahadah
- witness, attestant, attestor, attestator - (law) a person who attests to the genuineness of a document or signature by adding their own signature
--4 is a kind of signer, signatory
- witness - (law) a person who testifies under oath in a court of law
--5 is a kind of person, individual, someone, somebody, mortal, human, soul
--5 has particulars:
Verb witness has 2 senses
- witness - be a witness to
--1 is one way to watch
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s something
- witness, find, see - perceive or be contemporaneous with; "We found Republicans winning the offices"; "You'll see a lot of cheating in this school"; "I want to see results"; "The 1960 saw the rebellion of the younger generation against established traditions"; "I want to see results"
--2 is one way to experience, undergo, see, go through
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s somebody to INFINITIVE
Somebody ----s that CLAUSE
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