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1. Be a witness to
   "She witnessed the accident and had to testify in court"
    
2. Perceive or be contemporaneous with
   "We witnessed Republicans winning the offices";
   - find, see

1. Someone who sees an event and reports what happened
   - witnesser, informant
    
2. A close observer; someone who looks at something (such as an exhibition of some kind)
   "the witnesses applauded the performance";
   - spectator, viewer, watcher, looker
    
3. Testimony by word or deed to your religious faith
    
4. (law) a person who attests to the genuineness of a document or signature by adding their own signature
   - attestant, attestor, attestator
    
5. (law) a person who testifies under oath in a court of law

Derived forms: witnessing, witnessed, witnesses

Type of: beholder, experience, go through, individual, mortal, observer, perceiver, percipient, person, see, signatory, signer, somebody, someone, soul, speaker, talker, testimony, utterer, verbaliser [Brit], verbalizer, watch

Encyclopedia: Witness