hoardhoard2 (also hoard up) verb [transitive] 
Verb Table Examples
families who hoarded food during the strike—hoarder noun [countable]: I’m a hoarder when it comes to clothes.
Verb TableVERB TABLE
hoard
| Simple Form | ||
| Present | I, you, we, they | hoard |
| he, she, it | hoards | |
| Past | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | hoarded |
| Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have hoarded |
| he, she, it | has hoarded | |
| Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had hoarded |
| Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will hoard |
| Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have hoarded |
| Continuous Form | ||
| Present | I | am hoarding |
| he, she, it | is hoarding | |
| you, we, they | are hoarding | |
| Past | I, he, she, it | was hoarding |
| you, we, they | were hoarding | |
| Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have been hoarding |
| he, she, it | has been hoarding | |
| Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had been hoarding |
| Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will be hoarding |
| Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have been hoarding |
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
Thesaurus- My grandmother hoards everything - jam jars, plastic bags, pieces of string - her house is a mess.
- Some gasoline dealers began hoarding supplies.
- They've been hoarding food and water, convinced that some kind of catastrophe is coming.
- All those words he had hoarded for so long and released so grudgingly.
- Everyone knows it is illegal to hoard a spot.
- He had hoarded the butt-ends of candles as another prisoner would hoard pieces of food.
- Life is hoarded elsewhere by others.
- That tends to make people want to hoard.
- The secret, almost inaccessible haven where the black-robed savants hoarded the wisdom that sustained the people of Arcadia.
- Torney, who hoards old Harley-Davidson metallic signs for his own pleasure, was proud of his purchase that Sunday.
- Typically, sodium ions are excluded and potassium ions are hoarded.
THESAURUS► keep
to collect and save large amounts of food, money etc, especially when it is not necessary to do so: to leave something in one particular place so that you can find it easily: · Where do you keep the scissors?· The keys are kept in my office.
► store to put things away and keep them until you need them: · Villagers have begun storing wood for the winter.
► save to keep something so that you can use or enjoy it in the future: · He had been saving the bottle of champagne for a special occasion.· We can save the rest of the pie for later.
► file to store papers or information in a particular order or a particular place: · All the contracts are filed alphabetically.
► collect to get and keep objects of the same type because you think they are attractive or interesting: · Kate collects old postcards.
► hold to keep something to be used when it is needed, especially something that many different people may need to use: · Medical records are now usually held on computers.
► reserve formal to keep part of something for use at a later time during a process such as cooking: · Reserve some of the chocolate so that you can use it for decorating the cake.
► hoard to keep large amounts of food, money etc because you think you may not be able to get them in the future – used when you do not approve of people doing this because it is not necessary or not fair to other people: · People have been hoarding food and fuel in case there is another attack.· Rationing of basic food products was introduced to prevent hoarding.
Longman Language Activatorto keep something in a particular place► keep · Where do you keep the scissors?keep something in/on/under etc something · We always keep the car in the garage.· My grandfather kept his teeth in a glass next to his bed.· Visitors are advised to keep their valuables with them at all times.
► store to keep something for a long period of time so that it is ready for you to use when you need it: · Store the medicine in a cool place.· The warehouse is being used to store food and clothes for the refugees.· The government plans to store the nuclear waste at a site in Nevada.
► keep something in storage to store something, especially a large object or a large quantity of something, until the time when you are able to use it: · All our furniture is being kept in storage until we can find a new apartment.· The meat is kept in cold storage before being sent out to supermarkets.
► preserve to store something such as food for a long time, especially after treating it in a special way so that it does not decay: · Early settlers preserved meat by drying and salting it.· Human organs, preserved in jars, lined the shelves of the laboratory.
► hoard to collect and keep a large quantity of something secretly, because you think it might be useful at some time in the future - use this when you think the person who does this worries too much about keeping things for the future: · My grandmother hoards everything - jam jars, plastic bags, pieces of string - her house is a mess.· They've been hoarding food and water, convinced that some kind of catastrophe is coming.
families who hoarded food during the strike—hoarder noun [countable]: I’m a hoarder when it comes to clothes.