witnessing
present participle ofwitness
| 单词 | witnessing |
| 释义 | witnessing present participle ofwitness witness verb[T] uk/ˈwɪt.nəs/us/ˈwɪt.nəs/witnessverb[T](BE PRESENT)B2 toseesomethinghappen,especiallyanaccidentorcrime: Did anyone witness theattack? They werestayingin thecapitalat thetimeof theriotsand witnessed severalstreetbattles. [+ -ing verb]Hearrivedhomejust intimeto witness hisbrotherbeingtaken away by thepolice. to see something
to bepresentat aneventand tosignyournameasproofthat ithappenedor that it was donecorrectly: Her will was witnessed by twocolleagues.
Using the eyes
You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics: Signing & signatures witnessverb[T](HAPPEN)formal When aplaceorperiodwitnesses aparticularevent, theeventhappensin thatplaceor during thatperiod: Thisuniversityhas witnessedquitea fewchangesover theyears. ThoseyearswitnessedmomentouschangesthroughoutEurope. Experiencing and suffering
witnessverb[T](SHOW)to show or giveproofof something: This year'scharityballwas the mostsuccessfuloneever,aswitnessedbythenumberofticketssold. Theprogrammearousedstrongfeelings- witness thenumberoflettersreceived. Showing and demonstrating
You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics: Proving and disproving Phrasal verbwitness tosomething Examplesofwitnessingwitnessing In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use. He refers, for example, to 'ethnographicwitnessing' which has a connotation of superiority associated with religion. From theCambridge English Corpus The most plausible explanation for our -ic and -ical pickle is that we arewitnessinglanguage change at work: a messy but fascinating business. From theCambridge English Corpus For their legitimacy is extraneous to any form of collectivewitnessingor spectacular stage management. From theCambridge English Corpus After all, linguistics in the past half-century has had the good fortune ofwitnessingnot one revolution, but two. From theCambridge English Corpus It is likely that violence victimization, more so thanwitnessing, may be associated with both isolation and self-estrangement. From theCambridge English Corpus More fundamentally, they suggest that we may bewitnessinga key stage in a transformation of social policy discourse. From theCambridge English Corpus In this sense, the changes we arewitnessingare evolutionary rather than revolutionary. From theCambridge English Corpus What we arewitnessingis the replacement of bureaucracy by competitive politics : re-politicisation in a dual key. From theCambridge English Corpus Which is in essence how taxonomic autobiography could work, a process ofwitnessingwhich names the subject into objective being. From theCambridge English Corpus Of the remaining third, one stopped pulling the chains altogether for 5 days and another for 12 days afterwitnessingthe shock of the object. From theCambridge English Corpus In experimental paradigms, rhesus monkey subjects also pressed a bar to avoidwitnessingthe shock of a conspecific object. From theCambridge English Corpus We arewitnessingtwo different styles of learning, which have been defined as 'linear' and 'by immersion'. From theCambridge English Corpus Further,witnessingpartner violence in later developmental periods may compromise the child's contemporaneous adaptation as was found in the middle childhood years. From theCambridge English Corpus Why are certain epochs characterised by hegemonic systems, when in others one has the impression ofwitnessingtheoretical anarchy? From theCambridge English Corpus It can thus be said that we arewitnessingthe routinisation of multiparty elections. From theCambridge English Corpus These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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