单词 | hoarder | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
释义 | hoardhoard2 (also hoard up) verb [transitive] Verb Table VERB TABLE hoard
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES Thesaurus
THESAURUS► keep 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. 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. |
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