testify
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To make a solemn declaration, verbal or written, to establish some fact; to give testimony for the purpose of communicating to others a knowledge of something not known to them.
To make a solemn declaration under oath or affirmation, for the purpose of establishing, or making proof of, some fact to a court; to give testimony in a cause depending before a tribunal.
To declare a charge; to protest; to give information; to bear witness; -- with against.
To bear witness to; to support the truth of by testimony; to affirm or declare solemny.
To affirm or declare under oath or affirmation before a tribunal, in order to prove some fact.
In a testy manner; fretfully; peevishly; with petulance.
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The blood test showed that he was the father
Her behavior testified to her incompetence
According to reporting in the Washington Post, Signorelli later sought marriage privileges to avoid having to testify against Tassone, just as he’s shown doing in the movie.
ACB director Reyneck Matembasaid all five judges--Healey Potani, Dingiswayo Madise, Redson Kapindu, Ivy Kamanga and Mike Tembo--will testify in court alongside four investigators from the graft-busting body.
Admitting his guilt and offering to testify against others, Ahmetspahic told the court that his marriage to a Bosnian woman and becoming a father “gave me the strength” to work for their return to Bosnia.
A long zig-zagging wall of peat turves and packed sand had apparently been constructed beforehand: concentrations of battle debris in front of it and a dearth behind it testify to the Romans' inability to breach the Germans' strong defense.