eyewitness
verbEtymology From eye + witness.
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To be present at an event or incident, and see and observe it.
eyewitness
nounEtymology From eye + witness.
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Someone who sees an event and can report or testify about it.
- And the girl's fate he could picture as plainly as though he were an eyewitness to it.1915, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Return of Tarzan:
- The evidence of eyewitnesses and the distance travelled after the initial derailment confirmed that the train was travelling at 45 to 50 m.p.h. as it became derailed.1960 September 23, “Talking of Trains: Accident at Holmes Chapel”, in Trains Illustrated, page 522:
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- There was no eyewitness report or independent confirmation for the strike near the town of Mareesa that was also reported by the Dubai-based Al-Arabiya television network.2015 July 20, Ayman Al-Warfalli, “Libyan planes sink ship, attack another near Benghazi: spokesmen”, in Reuters: