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would
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Used to form the "anterior future", or "future in the past", indicating a futurity relative to a past time.
Other meanings
2. 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)
3. verb
Was or were determined to; indicating someone's insistence upon doing something.
4. verb
Wanted to.
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