0 past simple and past participle of witness
1 to see something happen, especially an accident or crime:
2 When a place or period witnesses a particular event, the event happens in that place or during that period:
This university has witnessed quite a few changes over the years.
Those years witnessed momentous changes throughout Europe.
3 to show or give proof of something:
Recent years have witnessed a growth in religious fundamentalism.
What we are witnessing is the country's slow slide into anarchy.
His face registered extreme disapproval of what he had witnessed.
It was a terrible thing to witness.
Thus, the eighteenth century witnessed neither an economic nor a monetary crisis.
I align with the latter view - history has witnessed the flourishing of many normative systems we now find dubious or even paradigmatically unacceptable.
Cases and controls were similar on all demographic variables, school performance, number of attacks witnessed and psychopathology before the onset of the epidemic.
