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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 happenedplay

  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 eyesplay

  Familiarity information: EYEWITNESS used as a verb is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


EYEWITNESS (noun)


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)


EYEWITNESS (verb)

 Conjugation: 
Present simple: I / you / we / they eyewitness  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation ... he / she / it eyewitnesses  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation
Past simple: eyewitnessed  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation
Past participle: eyewitnessed  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation
-ing form: eyewitnessing  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation


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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