Definition of "couldn've" []

• Contraction of couldn't've. (phrase)

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• "I wish I couldn've watched him put all his brut strength into opening that coconut, but I was in the kitchen effing up the cupcake batter."
• "But somehow I wish I could've softened the blow, couldn've written something encouraging and personal to the students who didn't do as well as they (or I) had hoped."
• "For all you know, the man who killed the other person, could have been unintentional, or he couldn've done something that had a great impact on the guy before he decided to kill him."