"'ld" meaning in All languages combined

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Verb [English]

Head templates: {{head|en|verb form}} 'ld
  1. Contraction of would. Tags: abbreviation, alt-of, contraction Alternative form of: would Synonyms: 'd
    Sense id: en-'ld-en-verb-bpQjqDmM Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries
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          "ref": "1599 (first performance), B. I. [i.e., Ben Jonson], The Comicall Satyre of Euery Man out of His Humor. […], London: […] [Adam Islip] for William Holme, […], published 1600, →OCLC, Act I, scene ii, signature D, verso:",
          "text": "Gods pretious, come away man, what do you mean? and you knew him as I do, you’ld ſhun him, as you’ld do the plague?",
          "type": "quote"
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          "ref": "1915, Rupert Brooke, Lithuania: A Drama in One Act (Stewart Kidd Modern Plays), Cincinnati, Oh.: Stewart Kidd Company […], →OCLC, page 8:",
          "text": "Who’d want anything here, to rob us? And is it likely any one ’ld want me? And Anna—Anna ’ld give them more than they came for. She’s stronger than most men.",
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          "ref": "1932, Alec Waugh, “The Slave-trader”, in No Quarter, London, […]: Cassell and Company, […], →OCLC, page 125:",
          "text": "There was no risk, he said. He liked life as much as anyone. If there were any risk he’ld be the first to dodge it.",
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          "ref": "1966, John Betjeman, “Narcissus”, in High and Low, London: John Murray, […], →OCLC, section “Light and Dark”, page 58:",
          "text": "We’ld go for walks, we bosom boyfriends would / (For Bobby’s watching sisters drove us mad), / And when we just did nothing we were good, / But when we touched each other we were bad.",
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