📖 Definitions of "Wouldst"
- 1
(now uncommon or literary) To wish, desire (something).
"Do what you will."
- 2
(nowadays rare) To wish or desire (that something happen); to intend (that).
- 3
(auxiliary) To habitually do (a given action).
- 4
(auxiliary) To choose to (do something); used to express intention but without any temporal connotations (+ bare infinitive), often in negation.
"I’ve told him three times, but he won’t take his medicine."
- 1
To wish, desire.
- 2
To instruct (that something be done) in one's will.
- 3
To try to make (something) happen by using one's will (intention).
"All the fans were willing their team to win the game."
- 4
To bequeath (something) to someone in one's will (legal document).
"He willed his stamp collection to the local museum."
💡 Words with a Similar Meaning to "Wouldst"
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| Word | Definition |
|---|---|
| gabblenoun | (ambitransitive) To talk fast, idly, foolishly, or without meaning. |
| wherewithverb | (archaic) With which; with what. |
| dothverb | — |
| knowestverb | — |
| doethverb | — |
| shewverb | Archaic spelling of show. [(transitive) To display, to have somebody see (something).] |
| didstverb | — |
| spakeverb | (Wales, mining) A type of wagon on rails used for carrying workers in and out of a colliery. |
| saithverb | Alternative form of saithe (“type of fish”). [The pollock or coalfish or coley (Pollachius virens).] |
| theeverb | (transitive) To address (a person) using the pronoun thee. |
| whereforeverb | (conjunctive, interrogative, archaic) Why, for what reason, because of what. |
| seethverb | (intransitive) (figurative) Of a person: to be in an agitated or angry mental state, often in a way that is not obvious to others. |
| accursedverb | (prenominal) Hateful; detestable, loathsome. |
| supplicateverb | (transitive) To make a humble request to (someone, especially a person in authority); to beg, to beseech, to entreat. |
| forfendverb | (archaic) To prohibit; to forbid; to avert. |
| propitiatedverb | (transitive) To conciliate, appease, or make peace with someone, particularly a god or spirit. |
| besoughtverb | To beg or implore something of (a person). |
| thineverb | — |
| blasphemeverb | (intransitive) To commit blasphemy; to speak against God or religious doctrine. |
| abasedverb | Humbled; lowered, especially in rank, position, or prestige. |
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