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we'd
3 ENTRIES FOUND:
wed
(verb)
Wed.
(abbreviation)
we'd
we'd
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wiːd/
we'd
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ˈ
wiːd/
Britannica Dictionary definition of WE'D
—
used as a contraction of
we had
or
we would
We'd
[=we had] better be going.
We said
we'd
[=we would] try to do better.
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