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witness

   Also found in: Dictionary/thesaurus, Medical, Legal, Acronyms, Encyclopedia, Wikipedia, Hutchinson 0.02 sec.
witness for someone or something
to serve as a witness for some person or some deed. They could find no one to witness to something witness for the accused person. The police found someone to witness for the hour of the crime.

witness to something

to serve as a witness to some act or deed. I was witness to the beating. We were not witness to any of the activities you have described.
bear testimony/witness to something   (formal)
if something bears testimony to a fact, it proves that it is true The numerous awards on his walls bear witness to his great success.
See also: bear
bear witness to something
to show by your existence that something is true The survivors of this disaster bear witness to a terrible event we would like to forget.
See also: bear


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