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couldn't

[kood-nt]

  1. contraction of could not.



couldn't

/ ˈʊəԳ /

contraction

  1. could not

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Idioms and Phrases

In addition to the idioms beginning with couldn't, also see hurt a flea, couldn't. Also see under can't.
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He dove off a boat to snorkel with his daughter in the ocean, then couldn’t “swim and generate enough power to get myself back to the boat.”

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That would be men have to wear pants, women have to wear skirts, and the courts couldn't look at that closely.

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They come to be stretched out more deeply, in positions they couldn’t possibly get into, physically, on their own.

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And Coelho says production designer Nina Ruscio tested about 50 shades of white paint for the set’s hospital walls to find one that would balance everyone’s skin tones because the scenes flow so automatically into each other that the lighting couldn’t always be adjusted.

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“I realized there’s no part of me that couldn’t not do this,” Dever says.

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