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couldst

/koodst, kootst/US // kʊdst, kʊtst //UK // (kʊdst) //

可以,可,能,能否

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Definitions

  1. 1

    Archaic.

    • : 2nd person singular simple past tense of can.

Examples

  • Nor hast thou ever known, Aspasia,Or couldst thou comprehend the thoughts that onceThou didst inspire in me.

  • God answered him, "I have suffered him these hundred years, although he dishonored me; and couldst not thou endure him one night?"

  • “I thought thou couldst shoot true, Shumilana,” whispers Mandevu.

  • What knowest thou of this, for I think thou couldst not have been far from this place at sundown yesterday?

  • A right Conjurer might I name thee, couldst thou conjure back into these wooden tools the divine virtue they once held.