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. Lamar Alexander:

   I asked the White House to allow Dr. Stephen Hahn and Dr. Redfield to testify by videoconference at this important hearing which is less than three days away, i am grateful that White House Chief of Staff, Mark Meadows, approved a one-time exception to the Administration's policies about hearings, and has agreed that Dr. Stephen Hahn and Dr. Redfield will testify at this hearing by videoconference due to these unusual circumstances.

2. Mark Warner:

   At this point Bill Barr has lost all credibility, and the only way to clear this up is for Special Counsel Mueller to testify publicly.

3. Don McGahn:

   > Washington( CNN) President Donald Trump denied again Friday President Donald Trump had instructed President Donald Trump former White House counsel to fire Robert Mueller, contradicting the redacted report Robert Mueller released last week and furthering a battle with Democrats over whether Don McGahn, Don McGahn, should testify before Congress.It comes as Trump scales up Don McGahn attacks on Robert Mueller and the report Don McGahn produced -- broadsides and claims that some view as damaging to an overall legal strategy of asserting executive privilege to prevent key aides from appearing before Congress.Some West Wing officials have conceded that the President's tweets disputing McGahn's account are not helpful to their case, and fear it could make it more difficult to assert privilege over a conversation that Trump denies occurred. Mueller's report portrays The President as consumed by the Russia probe and intent on short-circuiting it. Those portrayals have led Democrats on Capitol Hill to issue their own requests for some of the report's key players, including Don McGahn. But White House has dug in, refusing to cooperate with the requests and disallowing some aides from appearing before congressional panels.Trump at war with Democrats : Were fighting all the subpoenasIn the case of Don McGahn, lawmakers are keen to know what specifically Trump asked in his conversations about the special counsel. In his report, Robert Mueller wrote Trump read MoreBut Trump has long disputed that, including to Don McGahn Don McGahn in an episode recounted in detail in the Mueller report. Speaking to reporters on the South Lawn, Trump insisted he would have been within his rights to dismiss Robert Mueller, but that history told him to hold off.

4. Nathan Raab:

   These original documents remind us of their vision and moral strength of George Washington and Abraham Lincoln, a vision which helped shape and mold our country in ways neither could have foreseen. They testify to the power of original history to inspire and remind us of the great figures of the past.

5. Emmet Sullivan:

   I agree the Postmaster is either going to have to be deposed or testify before me under oath.