noun
- a person who sees an event happen and can give a firsthand account of it
verb
- to see an event happen personally
Examples
- The eyewitness testified in court about what she saw during the accident.
- Police are looking for eyewitnesses to the robbery.
- As an eyewitness to history, she documented the civil rights march.
- The eyewitness account differed from the official report.
- He eyewitnessed the meteor shower from his backyard.
- Several people eyewitnessed the building collapse.
- The journalist eyewitnessed the historic peace treaty signing.