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wouldn't

[ wood-nt ]

  1. contraction of would not:

    I wouldn't ask her.



wouldn't

/ ˈ·Éʊ»ćəČÔłÙ /

contraction of

  1. would not
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Usage Note

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Idioms and Phrases

In addition to the idiom beginning with wouldn't , also see butter wouldn't melt ; caught dead, wouldn't be ; not (wouldn't) lift a finger . Also see under not .
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Example Sentences

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"Philip wouldn't talk to Richard because he was so loyal to Sybil, Richard's first wife," said Angela.

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"If it wasn't for the good of the country, he wouldn't have chosen martial law, where he would have to pay with his life if he failed," a pro-Yoon rally attendee, who gave only his surname Park, told the BBC.

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“I was impressed because one tends to think of punk as almost a disposable commodity, if people are living too fast you’d think they wouldn’t be preserving these things as they went along, and there’s a tremendous amount of stuff that people did save, it’s filling up the walls here,” Washburn said.

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“All the fight, all everything we did last year, man, that was hard. I wouldn’t be able to look at myself in the mirror if I wasn’t there.”

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"There is still a 96.2% chance that the asteroid will miss the Moon," Nasa said in a statement, noting that even if it did make impact, it wouldn't change the Moon's orbit.

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