Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of verb take_the_fifth_amendment

1 sense of take the fifth amendment

Sense 1
take the Fifth, take the Fifth Amendment -- (refuse to testify by invoking the Fifth Amendment, which states that nobody may be forced to testify as a witness against himself or herself)
       => declare -- (state emphatically and authoritatively; "He declared that he needed more money to carry out the task he was charged with")