Synonyms for witness
ˈwɪt nɪswit·ness

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1. witnessverb

   Synonyms:
   certify

2. witnessverb

   To furnish proof of, to show.

   This certificate witnesses his presence on that day.

   Synonyms:
   certify

3. witnessverb

   To take as evidence.

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

   Synonyms:
   certify

4. witnessverb

   To see, note, or gain knowledge of.

   He witnessed the accident.

   Synonyms:
   certify

5. witnessverb

   To present personal religious testimony; to preach at (someone) or on behalf of.

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

   Synonyms:
   certify

English Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:2.0 / 1 vote

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 AntonymsRate these synonyms:3.0 / 4 votes

1. witness

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

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

Princeton's WordNetRate these synonyms:1.8 / 5 votes

1. witness, witnesser, informantnoun

   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, lookernoun

   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. witnessnoun

   testimony by word or deed to your religious faith

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

4. witness, attestant, attestor, attestatornoun

   (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. witnessverb

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

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

6. witnessverb

   be a witness to

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

   Synonyms:
   see, find

7. witness, find, seeverb

   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

Matched Categories

1. • Perceiver
   • Speaker
   • Testimony
   • Watch

Editors ContributionRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. victimize

   to have no part in something and be completely innocent

   Submitted by rinat on August 15, 2019  

Dictionary of English SynonymesRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. witnessnoun

   Synonyms:
   testimony, evidence, attestation, corroboration

2. witnessnoun

   Synonyms:
   deponent, corroborator, eye-witness

3. witnessverb

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

4. witnessverb

   Synonyms:
   observe, see, take cognizance of

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated WordsRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. witnessnoun

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

2. witnessverb

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

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1. List of paraphrases for "witness":

   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, MDRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. witness

   Synonyms:
   Diagnostic witness

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1. George Santayana:

   The body is an instrument, the mind its function, the witness and reward of its operation.

2. John Fitzgerald Kennedy:

   Let the word go forth from this time and place, to friend and foe alike, that the torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans, born in this century, tempered by war, disciplined by a hard and bitter peace, proud of our ancient heritage, and unwilling to witness or permit the slow undoing of those human rights to which this nation has always been committed, and to which we are committed today, at home and around the world

3. Michael Lauber:

   We didn't audition Mr Platini as a witness, that's not true. We investigated against him in between as a witness and an accused person, if I was satisfied or not, I can't tell because I would do real damage to the investigation.

4. Danish proverb:

   Life without a friend is death without a witness.

5. Donald Trump:

   -- a move that his lawyer, former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani, has long insisted is the main reason why the President shouldn't even consider sitting down with Robert Mueller. But what President Donald Trump is describing above isn't a perjury trap at all.Read MoreLet's define the term first : A perjury trap is when a prosecutor asks questions of a witness knowing that witness will lie. In order to lure someone into a perjury trap, you have to know two things beyond any doubt : 1) The facts behind the question and 2) That the person you are asking the question of is going to lie about the facts.It's not at all clear that's what would be going on with a Mueller-Trump sit-down -- on matters related to Comey or anything else. And in fact, the scenario President Donald Trump lays out isn't even close to a perjury trap. Instead it's a.