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EYEWITNESS
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Dictionary entry overview: What does eyewitness mean?
• EYEWITNESS (noun)
The noun EYEWITNESS has 1 sense:
1. a spectator who can describe what happened
Familiarity information: EYEWITNESS used as a noun is very rare.
• EYEWITNESS (verb)
The verb EYEWITNESS has 1 sense:
1. be present at an event and see it with one's own eyes
Familiarity information: EYEWITNESS used as a verb is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A spectator who can describe what happened
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Hypernyms ("eyewitness" is a kind of...):
looker; spectator; viewer; watcher; witness (a close observer; someone who looks at something (such as an exhibition of some kind))
Derivation:
eyewitness (be present at an event and see it with one's own eyes)
Conjugation: |
Past simple: eyewitnessed
Past participle: eyewitnessed
-ing form: eyewitnessing
Sense 1
Meaning:
Be present at an event and see it with one's own eyes
Classified under:
Verbs of seeing, hearing, feeling
Hypernyms (to "eyewitness" is one way to...):
witness (be a witness to)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Derivation:
eyewitness (a spectator who can describe what happened)
Context examples
"It tells us about impact processes from an eyewitness location."
(Rocks at asteroid impact site record first day of dinosaur extinction, National Science Foundation)
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