单词 | testify |
释义 | tes·ti·fy ![]() v. test·i·fied, test·i·fy·ing, test·i·fies v.intr. 1. To give testimony in a legal case or before a deliberative body: witnesses testifying before a grand jury. 2. To express or declare a strong belief, especially to make a declaration of faith. 3. To make a statement based on personal knowledge in support of an asserted fact; bear witness: the exhilaration of weightlessness, to which many astronauts have testified. 4. To serve as evidence: wreckage that testifies to the ferocity of the storm. v.tr. 1. To declare publicly; make known: testifying their faith. 2. To state or affirm as testimony in a legal case or before a deliberative body: testified in court that he saw the defendant. 3. To be evidence of: His frown testified his displeasure. [Middle English testifien, from Latin testificārī : testis, witness; see trei- in the Appendix of Indo-European roots + -ficārī, -fy.] tes′ti·fi·cation (-fĭ-kāshən) n. testi·fi′er n. |
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