Meaning of can't | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Cannot (negative auxiliary); be unable to; not have the ability to (whether due to lacking relevant strength or skill or knowledge or supplies, or due to logical impossibility, etc).
2. To be forbidden to; to be not permitted to.
3. To be unwilling to; to not have the desire of; to don’t want to.
   euphemistic, slang

Examples

“I can’t quite get it to work.”

“Shut up, can’t you?”

“The butler can’t be the murderer — he can't have killed her — because he was in London that evening.”

“To make Capons […] [S]ome for this Purpoſe make it their Buſineſs after Harveſt-time to go to Markets for buying up Chickens, and between Michaelmas and All-hollantide caponize the Cocks, when they have got large enough to have Stones [i.e., testes] of ſuch a Bigneſs that they may be pulled out; for if they are too little, it can't be done; […]”

“Shepard: Mordin, walk away. Mordin: Can't do that, Shepard. Shepard: I don't have a choice here. Walk away, or I will fire.”

“You can’t enter the hall without a ticket.”

“Will you come to dinner with us tonight? Can't; already have plans this evening.”

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