Synonyms for witness
ˈwɪt nɪs

Princeton's WordNet(1.80 / 5 votes)Rate these synonyms:

1. witness, witnesser, informant(noun)

   someone who sees an event and reports what happened

   Synonyms:
   attestant, watcher, attestator, informant, spectator, viewer, source, attestor, witnesser, looker

2. spectator, witness, viewer, watcher, looker(noun)

   a close observer; someone who looks at something (such as an exhibition of some kind)

   "the spectators applauded the performance"; "television viewers"; "sky watchers discovered a new star"

   Synonyms:
   sweetheart, beauty, viewer, stunner, smasher, watcher, informant, peach, looker, security guard, spectator pump, knockout, lulu, attestator, witnesser, mantrap, watchman, spectator, attestor, dish, ravisher, attestant

3. witness(noun)

   testimony by word or deed to your religious faith

   Synonyms:
   attestant, watcher, attestator, informant, spectator, viewer, attestor, witnesser, looker

4. witness, attestant, attestor, attestator(noun)

   (law) a person who attests to the genuineness of a document or signature by adding their own signature

   Synonyms:
   attestant, watcher, attestator, attester, informant, spectator, viewer, attestor, witnesser, looker

5. witness(verb)

   (law) a person who testifies under oath in a court of law

   Synonyms:
   attestant, watcher, attestator, informant, spectator, viewer, attestor, witnesser, looker

6. witness(verb)

   be a witness to

   "She witnessed the accident and had to testify in court"

   Synonyms:
   see, find

7. witness, find, see(verb)

   perceive or be contemporaneous with

   "We found Republicans winning the offices"; "You'll see a lot of cheating in this school"; "The 1960's saw the rebellion of the younger generation against established traditions"; "I want to see results"

   Synonyms:
   line up, detect, recover, take in, figure, date, go out, find oneself, look, get, examine, get hold, run across, see to it, find, view, go steady, retrieve, get word, control, construe, rule, notice, meet, check, chance, determine, see, find out, reckon, project, come up, visualize, realise, fancy, encounter, escort, assure, envision, happen, watch, receive, visit, feel, run into, regard, incur, take care, come across, observe, get a line, go through, image, picture, get wind, ensure, attend, pick up, understand, experience, ascertain, catch, bump, visualise, consider, interpret, learn, realize, regain, obtain, discover, insure, hear

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1. witness(verb)

   Synonyms:
   certify

2. witness(verb)

   To furnish proof of, to show.

   This certificate witnesses his presence on that day.

   Synonyms:
   certify

3. witness(verb)

   To take as evidence.

   As a witness to the event, I can tell you that he really said that.

   Synonyms:
   certify

4. witness(verb)

   To see, note, or gain knowledge of.

   He witnessed the accident.

   Synonyms:
   certify

5. witness(verb)

   Something that serves as evidence; a sign.

   I don't really want to be actively harrassed (I mean witnessed to) (...)\uE000152870

   Synonyms:
   certify

English Synonyms and Antonyms(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate these synonyms:

1. witness

   Acknowledge, admit, and declare refer either to oneself or to others; all the other words refer only to one's own knowledge or action. To avow is to declare boldly and openly, commonly as something one is ready to justify, maintain, or defend. A man acknowledges another's claim or his own promise; he admits an opponent's advantage or his own error; he declares either what he has seen or experienced or what he has received from another; he avers what he is sure of from his own knowledge or consciousness; he gives his assurance as the voucher for what he avouches; he avows openly a belief or intention that he has silently held. Avow and avouch take a direct object; aver is followed by a conjunction: a man avows his faith, avouches a deed, avers that he was present. Avow has usually a good sense; what a person avows he at least does not treat as blameworthy, criminal, or shameful; if he did, he would be said to confess it; yet there is always the suggestion that some will be ready to challenge or censure what one avows; as, the clergyman avowed his dissent from the doctrine of his church. Own applies to all things, good or bad, great or small, which one takes as his own. Compare CONFESS; STATE.

   Synonyms:
   admit, aver, avouch, avow, confess, declare, knowledge, own, proclaim, profess, protest, testify

   Antonyms:
   contradict, deny, disavow, disclaim, disown, ignore, repudiate

Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms(3.67 / 3 votes)Rate these synonyms:

1. witness

   Synonyms:
   attestation, testimony, evidence, corroboration, cognizance, corroborator, eyewitness, spectator, auditor, testifier, voucher, earwitness

   Antonyms:
   invalidation, incognizance, refutation, ignorance, alien, ignoramus, stranger

Editors Contribution(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate these synonyms:

1. victimize

   to have no part in something and be completely innocent

   Submitted by rinat on August 15, 2019  

Dictionary of English Synonymes(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate these synonyms:

1. witness(n.)

   Synonyms:
   testimony, evidence, attestation, corroboration

2. witness(n.)

   Synonyms:
   deponent, corroborator, eye-witness

3. witness(v. a.)

   Synonyms:
   attest, be a witness of, bear witness to

4. witness(v. a.)

   Synonyms:
   observe, see, take cognizance of

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate these synonyms:

1. witness(n)

   Synonyms:
   attestation, testimony, evidence, eye-witness, deponent, attestor

2. witness(v)

   Synonyms:
   testify, bear witness, confirm, corroborate, attest

PPDB, the paraphrase database(5.00 / 2 votes)Rate these synonyms:

1. List of paraphrases:

   witnesses, tell-tale, tracer, eyewitness, testimony, telltale, control, cookie, tell-tales, baton, comparison, testify, indicator, witnessed, faith, attend, testimonial

Concise Medical Dictionary, by Joseph C Segen, MD(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate these synonyms:

1. witness

   Synonyms:
   Diagnostic witness

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How to use witness in a sentence?

1. Jerry Nadler:

   Article 3 of Nixon's impeachment was obstruction of Congress, refusing to obey defined congressional subpoenas, pleading imaginary privilege, and obviously that's what The President has been doing. Richard Nixon wasn't foolish to say in advance that Richard Nixon's going to defy all congressional subpoenas... and today we saw a witness instructed by the White House completely contemptuous of Congress who refused to answer relevant questions. Just another instance of obstruction of Congress and that's what Article 3 of the Richard Nixon impeachment was.

2. Lynn Westmoreland:

   I've never seen him at any of our meetings, I've never seen him at a hearing. I've never seen him at a witness interview. I've never talked to him about Benghazi. I don't know if he's ever talked to any of the other members, it seems like he's just getting this information from the Democrats and Media Matters.

3. Toronto Police Chief Mark Saunders:

   Based on witness accounts, we have a vehicle that started north on Yonge Street from Finch( Avenue) and drove southbound at some point in times on sidewalks, at some point in times driving southbound in northbound lanes.

4. Deborah Ramirez:

   Do you believe it is unusual that Christine Ford did not immediately file a report ? 6. As a judge, would you want the committee to hear testimony from the only named witness in Ford's account, Mark Judge, especially since he could theoretically exonerate you ? 7. President Donald Trump also said of Deborah Ramirez.

5. Ahmad Tarakji:

   The children have seen a lot of suffering, many of them have these daily nightmares because of the bombardments and chemical weapons that they witness -- and losing their families as well.

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