单词 | hoards |
释义 | hoard1 of 3noun (1) ˈhȯrd plural hoards : a supply or fund stored up and often hidden away a hoard of cash hoard 2 of 3verb hoarded; hoarding; hoards transitive verb 1 : to collect and often hide away a supply of : to accumulate a hoard (see hoard entry 1) of hoarding food 2 : to keep (something, such as one's thoughts) to oneself she hoarded her intention Virginia Woolf the people outside disperse their affections, you hoard yours, you nurse them into intensity Joseph Conrad intransitive verb : to collect and often hide away a supply of something specifically : to engage in compulsive hoarding One thing people who hoard have in common is a skewed perceived value of possessions. My Edmonds News (Edmonds, Washington) hoard 3 of 3noun (2) plural hoards : a temporary board fence put around a building being erected or repaired : hoarding entry 2 sense 1 hoards 1 of 2 noun1 as in stashes a supply stored up and often hidden away keeps a hoard of empty yogurt containers in his basement workshop for storing whatnots Synonyms & Similar Words Relevance
2 as in reserves a collection of things kept available for future use or need she couldn't find one pencil with an eraser in her entire hoard of pencil stubs Synonyms & Similar Words
hoards 2 of 2verbas in stores to put (something of future use or value) in a safe or secret place he's been hoarding empty yogurt containers all winter, with the intention of using them to start seedlings in the spring Synonyms & Similar Words
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