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EYEWITNESS
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A spectator who can describe what happened
Classified under:
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)
II. (verb)
Verb forms
Present simple: I / you / we / they eyewitness ... he / she / it eyewitnesses
Past simple: 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)