take the fifth
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22108·updated Jun 3, 2026verified
refuse to testify by invoking the Fifth Amendment, which states that nobody may be forced to testify as a witness against himself or herself
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Classifications
Cognitive
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Responsibility
Unclassified—trigger_default_value
Automation
Unclassified—trigger_default_value
Variants
- synonym
- take the Fifth Amendment
- alternatephrasing
- take the Fifth
- pasttense
- taked the fifthtook the fifth
- presentparticiple
- taking the fifth
- thirdpersonsingular
- takes the fifth
- pastparticiple
- taked the fifthtaken the fifth
Framework definitions
- §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
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