firsthandadverb
uk/ˌfɜːstˈhænd/us/ˌfɝːstˈhænd/If you experience something firsthand, you experience it yourself:
Most of the older reporters have experienced war firsthand.
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Experiencing and suffering
- afflict
- affliction
- almost/nearly die of sth idiom
- be a martyr to sth idiom
- be a victim of your own success idiom
- be devoured by sth idiom
- get the short end of the stick idiom
- go through sth
- grip
- hands-on
- hold
- hold on
- ride
- run into sth
- sample
- seat
- sense
- underwent
- ups and downs
- writhe
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firsthand
adjective [ before noun ] ukus
Most of us have firsthand experience of teaching.