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单词 hoarder
释义
hoardhoard2 (also hoard up) verb [transitive] Verb Table
VERB TABLE
hoard
Simple Form
PresentI, you, we, theyhoard
he, she, ithoards
PastI, you, he, she, it, we, theyhoarded
Present perfectI, you, we, theyhave hoarded
he, she, ithas hoarded
Past perfectI, you, he, she, it, we, theyhad hoarded
FutureI, you, he, she, it, we, theywill hoard
Future perfectI, you, he, she, it, we, theywill have hoarded
Continuous Form
PresentIam hoarding
he, she, itis hoarding
you, we, theyare hoarding
PastI, he, she, itwas hoarding
you, we, theywere hoarding
Present perfectI, you, we, theyhave been hoarding
he, she, ithas been hoarding
Past perfectI, you, he, she, it, we, theyhad been hoarding
FutureI, you, he, she, it, we, theywill be hoarding
Future perfectI, you, he, she, it, we, theywill have been hoarding
Examples
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
  • 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.
EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS
  • 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
THESAURUS
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.
to put things away and keep them until you need them: · Villagers have begun storing wood for the winter.
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.
to store papers or information in a particular order or a particular place: · All the contracts are filed alphabetically.
to get and keep objects of the same type because you think they are attractive or interesting: · Kate collects old postcards.
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.
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.
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
· 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
 to collect and save large amounts of food, money etc, especially when it is not necessary to do so:  families who hoarded food during the strike—hoarder noun [countable]:  I’m a hoarder when it comes to clothes.
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