hoard
verb/hɔːd/
/hɔːrd/
[intransitive, transitive]Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they hoard | /hɔːd/ /hɔːrd/ |
| he / she / it hoards | /hɔːdz/ /hɔːrdz/ |
| past simple hoarded | /ˈhɔːdɪd/ /ˈhɔːrdɪd/ |
| past participle hoarded | /ˈhɔːdɪd/ /ˈhɔːrdɪd/ |
| -ing form hoarding | /ˈhɔːdɪŋ/ /ˈhɔːrdɪŋ/ |
- hoard (something) to collect and keep large amounts of food, money, etc., often secretly
- The prisoners used to hoard scraps of food in secret places.
Extra ExamplesTopics Moneyc1- He had the habit of hoarding old magazines that interested him.
- Up to 80 per cent of the grain was hoarded by farms to barter for machinery.
Oxford Collocations DictionaryHoard is used with these nouns as the object:- money
Word OriginOld English hord (noun), hordian (verb), of Germanic origin; related to German Hort (noun), horten (verb).
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