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eyewitness

[ noun ahy-wit-nis, ahy-wit-nis; verb ahy-wit-nis ]

noun

  1. a person who actually sees some act, occurrence, or thing and can give a firsthand account of it:

    There were two eyewitnesses to the murder.



verb (used with object)

  1. to view with one's own eyes:

    to eyewitness a murder.

eyewitness

/ ˈ²¹ÉªËŒ·Éɪ³Ù²Ôɪ²õ /

noun

    1. a person present at an event who can describe what happened
    2. ( as modifier )

      an eyewitness account

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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of eyewitness1

First recorded in 1530–40; eye + witness
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The RSF still holds almost all the Darfur region in western Sudan, where earlier this week, eyewitnesses said dozens of civilians were killed when the air force bombed a market.

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One eyewitness described seeing an unidentified man vault a low wall, run between some bushes and get straight into a waiting vehicle which immediately sped off.

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With the fires still burning in the North Sea, eyewitnesses are shedding light on how the crash unfolded in 30 minutes of drama.

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Olaf Scholz, Germany's outgoing chancellor, thanked the emergency services and wished "strength" for eyewitnesses in Mannheim to "process what they have experienced".

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I assumed that writing a widely circulated eyewitness account of an unsolved murder would’ve led the detectives to attempt to interview me or anyone who I was with that night.

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