eyewitnesseye‧wit‧ness /ˈaɪˌwɪtnəs/ ●○○ noun [countable] 
According to eyewitness accounts, soldiers opened fire on the crowd. One eyewitness said he saw her talking to a man in a blue car.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
- Sheriff's detectives had no eyewitnesses to the shootings.
- Attempts r3,20,21 to determine from eyewitness reports typically give shallow trajectories, in the range 5-17°.
- Dozens of eyewitness accounts confirmed the existence of these discreet departures to destinations far from Kosovo.
- For centuries the Ensisheim fall remained the only case in which eyewitness reports of a fall were combined with preserved meteoritic material.
- He says it could be an engine failure but no eyewitnesses noticed a change in engine note.
- Here was an eyewitness account of Butch at the murder scene.
- Police documents also describe him as the suspect in the slaying of the lone eyewitness to one of those killings.
- Reliable eyewitness reports of actual events, when embedded in such a list, suffered a serious erosion of credibility.
- They further assert that this value is consistent with eyewitness accounts.
WORD SETS
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COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRY According to eyewitness accounts, soldiers opened fire on the crowd.COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
someone who has seen something such as a crime happen, and is able to describe it afterwardseyewitness account/report/testimony According to eyewitness accounts, soldiers opened fire on the crowd. (=from someone who saw what happened)· Some were beaten and tortured according to first-hand reports from former prisoners.
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSNOUN· Dozens of eyewitness accounts confirmed the existence of these discreet departures to destinations far from Kosovo.· Here was an eyewitness account of Butch at the murder scene.· It is probably based on an eyewitness account.· The author also provides eyewitness accounts of the Kolno massacre.· The official report echoes eyewitness accounts of fire on board shortly after takeoff from the Upper Heyford base in Oxfordshire.· Investigators were reviewing physical evidence collected at the scene and information obtained from videotapes and eyewitness accounts.
· Unconfirmed eyewitness reports said the marshal was killed in what appeared to be a freak incident.· Our final source of information about large airbursts is eyewitness reports.· The sources of the eyewitness reports, then as now, are of course mostly from rural areas.
· This is consistent with recent studies on attention focusing in eyewitness testimony.· Some implications of these results for eyewitness testimony and for the psychology of driving are considered.
According to eyewitness accounts, soldiers opened fire on the crowd. One eyewitness said he saw her talking to a man in a blue car.