英和和英

語源

eye +‎ witness

名詞

eyewitness (複数形 eyewitnesses)

1. Someone who sees an event and can report or testify about it. [from 16th c.]
   • 1915, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Return of Tarzan:

     And the girl's fate he could picture as plainly as though he were an eyewitness to it.

   • 1960 September, “Talking of Trains: Accident at Holmes Chapel”, in Trains Illustrated, page 522:

     The evidence of eyewitnesses and the distance travelled after the initial derailment confirmed that the train was travelling at 45 to 50 m.p.h. as it became derailed.

動詞

eyewitness (三人称単数 現在形 eyewitnesses, 現在分詞 eyewitnessing, 過去形および過去分詞形 eyewitnessed)

1. To be present at an event, and see it