couldn't

verb
/ˈkʊd.n̩t/

Etymology

From could + n’t.

Definitions

  1. could not (negative auxiliary)

    • You couldn’t lend me a lighter, could you?
    • ‘Would you like another drink?’ ‘No thanks, I couldn’t.’

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for couldn't. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA