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eyewitness

Definition of eyewitness

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Noun

eyewitness (plural eyewitnesses)

  1. Someone who sees an event and can report or testify about it.

    * 1915, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Return of Tarzan:
    And the girl's fate he could picture as plainly as though he were an eyewitness to it.

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