Synonyms for testify
ˈtɛs təˌfaɪtes·ti·fy

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1. testifyverb

   Synonyms:
   bear witness

2. testifyverb

   to make a declaration, or give evidence, under oath

   Synonyms:
   bear witness

3. testifyverb

   to make a statement based on personal knowledge or faith

   Synonyms:
   bear witness

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1. testify

   Acknowledge, admit, and declare refer either to oneself or to others; all the other words refer only to one's own knowledge or action. To avow is to declare boldly and openly, commonly as something one is ready to justify, maintain, or defend. A man acknowledges another's claim or his own promise; he admits an opponent's advantage or his own error; he declares either what he has seen or experienced or what he has received from another; he avers what he is sure of from his own knowledge or consciousness; he gives his assurance as the voucher for what he avouches; he avows openly a belief or intention that he has silently held. Avow and avouch take a direct object; aver is followed by a conjunction: a man avows his faith, avouches a deed, avers that he was present. Avow has usually a good sense; what a person avows he at least does not treat as blameworthy, criminal, or shameful; if he did, he would be said to confess it; yet there is always the suggestion that some will be ready to challenge or censure what one avows; as, the clergyman avowed his dissent from the doctrine of his church. Own applies to all things, good or bad, great or small, which one takes as his own. Compare CONFESS; STATE.

   Synonyms:
   admit, aver, avouch, avow, confess, declare, knowledge, own, proclaim, profess, protest, witness

   Antonyms:
   contradict, deny, disavow, disclaim, disown, ignore, repudiate

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1. testify

   Synonyms:
   depose, swear, declare, witness, protest, affirm, verify, attest, confirm, certify, asseverate

   Antonyms:
   misdeclare, misaffirm, misdepose, mistestify, falsify

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1. testify, attest, take the stand, bear witnessverb

   give testimony in a court of law

   Synonyms:
   demonstrate, take the stand, evidence, show, attest, certify, manifest, bear witness, prove

2. testify, bear witness, prove, evidence, showverb

   provide evidence for

   "The blood test showed that he was the father"; "Her behavior testified to her incompetence"

   Synonyms:
   attest, express, rise, leaven, demo, try, exhibit, register, show, establish, depict, test, evidence, try out, tell, present, read, point, examine, indicate, take the stand, record, picture, certify, usher, designate, essay, raise, render, evince, prove, shew, turn out, demonstrate, manifest, show up, turn up, bear witness

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1. testifyverb

   Synonyms:
   depose, state, affirm, declare, DEPONE, protest, bear witness

2. testifyverb

   Synonyms:
   attest, depose, state, declare, affirm, bear witness to, vouch for

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1. testifyverb

   Synonyms:
   depose, attest, asseverate, verify

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1. List of paraphrases for "testify":

   attest, declare, witness, vouch, testifies, demonstrate

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1. Alejandro Giammattei:

   An act of injustice, i would have liked to testify in the case.

2. William Burck:

   People should not forget that Don McGahn is a lawyer and has an ethical obligation to protect client confidences, and as I have said before, Don McGahn does not believe Don McGahn witnessed any violation of law, and the President instructed Don McGahn to cooperate fully with Legal Counsel but directed him not to testify to Congress unless the White House and The Judiciary Committee reached an accommodation.

3. Dennis Farris:

   They collected evidence, they took interviews, statements, they talked to witnesses, they analyzed body-worn camera video. They are not being allowed to testify before the grand jury and they're not being called as witnesses. And also, the police officers themselves are not being invited to testify before the grand jury. And so what we have is another case where Jose Garza is manipulating what the grand jury hears in order to produce a desired outcome. this is what he ran on and what people need to understand when he ran for district attorney, he ran on, ‘I am going to indict police officers for wrongdoing,’.

4. Devin Nunes:

   We're working on the next stage but that's not yet. Right now we've given people the opportunity to come forward freely to testify publicly, you know this week, next week, and then at that point we have to decide where we go from there.

5. Rusty Hardin:

   No lawyer in America would let their client testify in a court case with the same matters being considered by a grand jury.