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to eyewitness

to eyewitness

1 4.7
To see an event happen with your own eyes
  • verb
  • /ˈaɪˌwɪtnəs/
translation icon : presenciar
  • Not eyewitnessing, but memory serves as a counter-rhetoric to Margaret Mead as well as other Western reviewers and anthropologists.

Examples

  • Could be 50 people here eyewitnessed these guys.

    The Town (2010)

  • I've read comments in which a few individuals made claims that they were there on October 12, and eyewitnessed this scenario as it appears in the Getty image.

    Blog text (12)

  • He was an eyewitness to the accident and could describe exactly what happened.

  • Many people stood by the roadside and eyewitnessed the parade as it passed by.

  • The reporter interviewed an eyewitness who saw the robbery take place.

Synonyms

to witness
vsto eyewitness
653 3.0

To see or be present at an event as it happens

focuses on seeing the event directly with one's own eyes

Surface Forms

eyewitness infinitive
eyewitnessed past
eyewitnessed past participle
eyewitnessing present participle
eyewitnesses third person singular

Morphology

eyewitness = eyewitness (transparent) = eye + witness

The verb is a straightforward zero-derivation from the noun 'eyewitness', which itself is a transparent compound of 'eye' and 'witness'.

Etymology

Eyewitness as a verb joins eye and witness to show action: to 'see' with your own eyes and be the one who tells about it. So, to eyewitness something is to be there, 'see it yourself', and report what happened.