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TAKE THE FIFTH AMENDMENT
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I. (verb)
Sense 1
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
Synonyms:
take the Fifth; take the Fifth Amendment
Classified under:
Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing
Hypernyms (to "take the Fifth Amendment" is one way to...):
declare (state emphatically and authoritatively)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s