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TAKE THE FIFTH AMENDMENT

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Dictionary entry overview: What does take the Fifth Amendment mean?

• TAKE THE FIFTH AMENDMENT (verb)
The verb TAKE THE FIFTH AMENDMENT has 1 sense:

1. refuse to testify by invoking the Fifth Amendment, which states that nobody may be forced to testify as a witness against himself or herself

Familiarity information: TAKE THE FIFTH AMENDMENT used as a verb is very rare.

Dictionary entry details

• TAKE THE FIFTH AMENDMENT (verb)

Sense 1

take the Fifth Amendment ^{[BACK TO TOP]}

Meaning:

Refuse to testify by invoking the Fifth Amendment, which states that nobody may be forced to testify as a witness against himself or herself

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Synonyms:

take the Fifth; take the Fifth Amendment

Hypernyms (to "take the Fifth Amendment" is one way to...):

declare (state emphatically and authoritatively)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s

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