Phrase Hound found 36 phrases and 16 compound words that contain witness. The most common are listed below. Open witness in the live search for definitions, filters, and the full list.
Phrases 36
- expert witnessA witness that has expertise in a certain field.
- bear witnessTo deliver a testimony, especially as witness
- false witnessA perjurer; a deceptive or misleading witness.
- Jehovah's WitnessA member of a monotheistic and nontrinitarian Restoration Christian denomination founded by Charles Taze Russell in 1879 as a small Bible study group.
- witness boxA witness stand in a courtroom.
- crown witnessA person implicated in a criminal case who turn against their accomplices by serving as a witness for the state and who may enter into a witness protection program afterwards.
- star witnessA witness who provides crucial information in a criminal case. (This entry is a translation hub.)
- witness protectionA government program that provides new identities and protection for witnesses who come forward and testify in court against dangerous targets.
- bear false witnessTo give an untrue testimony; to lie despite one's oath e.g. in court.
- character witnessA witness called to provide evidence with respect to the reputation, conduct or moral standing of a party.
- witness markA scratch or similar mark on each portion of an assembly used to determine the previous position or location of its parts.
- witness standAn enclosed area in a courtroom where witnesses give their evidence.
- hostile witnessA witness who intentionally gives unfavorable evidence against the party that called him or her as its witness.
- eye-witnessAlternative form of eyewitness: Someone who sees an event and can report or testify about it.
- material witnessA person with information alleged to be material concerning a criminal proceeding, and who therefore may be detained to insure their participation in such a proceeding.
- witness marksplural of witness mark: A scratch or similar mark on each portion of an assembly used to determine the previous position or location of its parts.
- adverse witnessa hostile witness.
- bearing witnesspresent participle and gerund of bear witness
- witness-consciousnessSynonym of atman: The true self of an individual beyond identification with worldly phenomena, the essence of an individual, an infinitesimal part of Brahman.
- anti-WitnessOpposed or hostile to Jehovah's Witnesses or their beliefs or doctrines.
- Jehovah witnessAlternative letter-case form of Jehovah's Witness.
- witness tamperingThe act of attempting to improperly alter, influence or prevent the testimony of witnesses within civil or criminal proceedings.
- may God be my witnessUsed to introduce a serious, solemn statement.
- as God is my witnessAlternative form of may God be my witness: Used to introduce a serious, solemn statement.
- bears witnessthird-person singular simple present indicative of bear witness: To deliver a testimony, especially as witness
Compound words 16
- eyewitnessSomeone who sees an event and can report or testify about it.
- earwitnessA witness who provides evidence or testimony based on auditory observations.
- nosewitnessA witness who gives evidence of what they have smelled.
- unwitnessTo undo the effects of witnessing something; to unsee.
- litnessTo witness by passing out religious literature, as part of the Children of God group.
- counterwitnessA witness whose testimony contradicts that of another witness.
- nonwitnessOne who is not a witness.
- witnessableCapable of being witnessed; observable.
- witnesserOne who witnesses.
- witnesslessWithout witnesses.