wouldn't
v.v. the short way to say 'would not'. You use it to talk about things that did not happen in the past or to say someone refused to do something.
v. the contracted form of 'would not'. Used to express a conditional negative, a refusal in the past, or a habitual past action that did not occur.
I wouldn't go there if I were you.
She tried to open the heavy wooden door, but it wouldn't budge no matter how hard she pushed.
Even though the evidence was presented clearly to the board members, they wouldn't accept that the current strategy was failing until the quarterly losses were made public.
Contraction of would + not, equivalent to would + -n't.
A contraction of the modal verb 'would' and the particle 'not'; functions as an auxiliary verb followed by the bare infinitive.
I wouldn't to goI wouldn't goThe modal contraction 'wouldn't' must be followed by the base form of the verb without 'to'.