take the fifth amendment

1. 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

   Synonymstake the Fifth

   Broaderdeclare

Questions about take the fifth amendment

What does take the fifth amendment mean?

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

What is another word for take the fifth amendment?

Close synonyms include take the Fifth. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is take the fifth amendment a common word?

take the fifth amendment is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.