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modal verb (POSSIBLE) strong /wʊd/ weak /wəd/ /əd/Definition
B1 (also 'd) used to refer to a situation that you can imagine happening: I would hate to miss the show. I'd go myself but I'm too busy. It would have been very boring to sit through the whole speech. B1 (also 'd) used with if in conditional sentences (= sentences that refer to what happens if something else happens): What would you do if you lost your job? If I'd had time, I would have gone to see Graham.
(Definition of would modal verb (POSSIBLE) from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus
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