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will

/wɪl/
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verb

  • (now uncommon or literary) To wish, desire (something).

    "Do what you will."

  • (nowadays rare) To wish or desire (that something happen); to intend (that).
  • (auxiliary) To habitually do (a given action).
  • (auxiliary) To choose to (do something); used to express intention but without any temporal connotations (+ bare infinitive), often in negation.

    "I’ve told him three times, but he won’t take his medicine."

  • (auxiliary) Used to express the future tense, sometimes with some implication of volition when used in the first person. Compare shall.
  • (auxiliary) To be able to, to have the capacity to.

    "Unfortunately, only one of these gloves will actually fit over my hand."

  • (auxiliary) Expressing a present tense with some conditional or subjective weakening: "will turn out to", "must by inference".

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