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. Ethel Hillman:

   He’s not socially connected, I would say, to the black community, he cares from a distance.

2. Republican Arizona Rep. Martha McSally:

   That's the kind of logic that the Taliban and other extremist organizations use in order to keep women segregated from men in their societies, that 'We're trying to keep women safe,' when you have a potential assaulter or rapist in your unit, would you be okay with him staying there and then maybe committing assault on other civilians somewhere else?

3. Melania Trump:

   If he would only listen.

4. Patrick Vallance:

   If you completely locked down absolutely everything probably for a period of four months or more then you would suppress this virus, all of the evidence from pervious epidemics suggests that when you do that and then you release it, it all comes back again.

5. Janet Yellen:

   An abrupt tightening would risk disrupting financial markets and perhaps even inadvertently push the economy into recession.