Synonyms for would
wʊd; unstressed wədwould

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1. wouldverb

   Synonyms:
   be so good as to, kindly, please, used to

2. wouldverb

   As a past-tense form of will.

   Synonyms:
   kindly, be so good as to, used to, please

3. wouldverb

   As a modal verb.

   Synonyms:
   please, kindly, be so good as to, used to

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1. List of paraphrases for "would":

   'd, ought

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1. Steve Higgins:

   The gulls had taken my ice-cream but had left me with the cone. I was scared that they would come back again, I was scared for my own safety. within seconds I was slapped with an 80 fine for littering.I was a tourist, I don’t live down there, I’m not aware of these things. He continued, If I had been aware I wouldn’t be walking around outside with an ice-cream. I was physically assaulted, and I dropped the cone because I was scared for my own safety if they came back.

2. Billie Scheumack:

   In this little town, you would n’t think something like this could happen.

3. Thomas Eichelmann:

   A management board member for personnel would make sense in my opinion, as would one for international marketing, we could do with more capacity and competence in the supervisory board too.

4. Linda Thomas-Greenfield:

   That would be a red line.

5. Nick Longrich:

   The fossil record is incomplete enough that if you’re in a new area or a new time, there’s a fair chance that the dinosaurs there are going to be distinct, Steven Jasinski said. For instance, scientists might discover a toe from a brand new species, but such subtle differences may be unrecognizable or impossible to prove. [ T ] hings that we call separate species today would be very, very hard to tell apart based on their skeleton( crow versus raven, for example).