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▸ verb:  Past tense of will; usually followed by a bare infinitive.
▸ verb:  Used to form the "anterior future", or "future in the past", indicating a futurity relative to a past time.
▸ verb:  Used to, did repeatedly, habitually; indicates an action that happened several times in the past (cannot describe continuous states, as in I used to live in London)
▸ verb:  Was or were determined to; indicating someone's insistence upon doing something.
▸ verb:  (archaic) Wanted to.
▸ verb:  (archaic) Used with ellipsis of the infinitive verb, or postponement to a relative clause, in various senses.
▸ verb:  (obsolete) Wished, desired (something).
▸ verb:  A modal verb, the subjunctive of will; usually followed by a bare infinitive.
▸ verb:  Used as the auxiliary of the simple conditional modality, indicating a state or action that is conditional on another.
▸ verb:  Without explicit condition, or with loose or vague implied condition, indicating a hypothetical or imagined state or action.
▸ verb:  Suggesting conditionality or potentiality in order to express a sense of politeness, tentativeness, indirectness, hesitancy, uncertainty, etc.
▸ verb:  Used to express what the speaker would do in another person's situation, as a means of giving a suggestion or recommendation.
▸ verb:  Used to express the speaker's belief or assumption.
▸ verb:  Could naturally be expected to (given the situation, the tendencies of someone's character etc.).
▸ verb:  Used interrogatively to express a polite request; are (you) willing to …?
▸ verb:  (chiefly archaic) Might wish (+ verb in past subjunctive); often used in the first person (with or without that) in the sense of "if only".
▸ verb:  (chiefly archaic, transitive or control verb) Might desire; wish (something).
▸ noun:  Something that would happen, or would be the case, under different circumstances; a potentiality.

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