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eye witness

eye witness is the alternative form of eyewitness.

Meaning of eyewitness

Noun

eyewitness (plural eyewitnesses)

  1. Someone who sees an event and can report or testify about it.
    • And the girl's fate he could picture as plainly as though he were an eyewitness to it.1915, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Return of Tarzan

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Forms of eye witness

pluraleye witnesses

Questions about eye witness

What is eye witness the alternative form of?
Eye witness is the alternative form of eyewitness.

Words near eye witness in the dictionary

  1. eye tooth
  2. eye tracking
  3. eye up
  4. eye washer
  5. Eye Water
  6. eye witness
  7. eye witnesses
  8. Eye, Moreton and Ashton
  9. eye-ache
  10. eye-aches
  11. eye-apple

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