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testify

/tes-tuh-fahy/US // ˈtɛs təˌfaɪ //UK // (ˈtɛstɪˌfaɪ) //

作证,指证,证明,证言

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Definitions

v.无主动词 verb
  1. 1

    tes·ti·fied, tes·ti·fy·ing.

    • : to bear witness; give or afford evidence.
    • : Law. to give testimony under oath or solemn affirmation, usually in court.
    • : to make solemn declaration.
v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1

    tes·ti·fied, tes·ti·fy·ing.

    • : to bear witness to; affirm as fact or truth; attest.
    • : to give or afford evidence of in any manner.
    • : Law. to state or declare under oath or affirmation, usually in court.
    • : to declare, profess, or acknowledge openly.

Synonyms & Antonyms

verbvouch for; give testimony

Examples

  • He said the then- secretary testified to a House committee that, in 2017, DHS had prevented 3,755 KSTs from traveling to or entering the US, even though the real number was no more than three.

  • Coming out still takes courage, as many a teenager can testify.

  • Singer, who has also pleaded guilty, was expected to testify against them if they had gone to trial.

  • This will be the first time that Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, the world’s wealthiest individual, will be testifying before Congress.

  • Under the reigning interpretation of American antitrust law, the executives who testify this week have little to fear from lawmakers or regulators.

  • Dean Sybil Todd passed away from pancreatic cancer before she could testify.

  • Instead, he barely pushed the jurors to charge the cop and allowed the unprecedented step of letting the officer testify.

  • The lady who Goldberg is referring to is Barbara Bowman, one of the victims who agreed to testify in the 2006 case.

  • “We were looking at 10 men with rifles, and then the beating began,” the survivor would later testify.

  • He became determined to locate other victims who would testify to abuses that could put Lebovits behind bars.

  • For her to testify that she did not love—and had never loved Jean Baptiste, he knew would be a deliberate falsehood.

  • And then today—yesterday you reached your climax by having me go on the stand and testify to a greater lie!

  • And how would the general confederation testify to a glorious work of reformation!

  • Nor was Africa then, without the evidence of industry, as history will testify.

  • Growers of Havana tobacco in the Connecticut valley can testify to this, and especially to the increased size of the plants.