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tocollectlargeamountsof something andkeepit for yourself, often in asecretplace: During thesiegepeoplebeganhoardingfoodandsupplies.围困期间，人们开始囤积食品和日用品。 There would be enoughfoodon adailybasisifpeoplewere not hoarding. tokeepalargenumberof things that are notneededor have novalue, because you aresufferingfrom amentalcondition: She hoardeddirtybottles,oldnewspapers,brokenappliances,evenplasticbagsfromcerealboxes. Psychiatrists are notsurewhat makes apersonstarthoarding. - I was hoardingcandlesincaseof apowercut.
- If there istalkofshortages,consumersmight juststarthoarding.
- Hisbungalowiscrammedwithtonsof hoardedjunk.
- Hestoppedtaking hismedicationandstartedhoarding again.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrasesKeeping and storing things - appropriate
- aside
- bank
- bogart
- capacitance
- capture
- cling
- dump
- lay
- laysomethingaside
- laysomethingdown
- laysomethingin
- maintain
- packsomethingaway
- reserve
- stockpile
- stockpiling
- storage
- store
- storesomethingup
See more results » You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics: alargeamountof something that someone hassavedandhidden: 大量储藏和积存的物品Wefoundahugehoardoftinnedfoodin thebasement.我们在地下室发现了一大批储藏的罐头食品。 SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrasesMasses and large amounts of things - accumulation
- any number ofthingsidiom
- armload
- backlog
- bolus
- flood
- foam
- logjam
- many
- motherlode
- multi-million
- multitude
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- pile
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See more results » tocollectlargeamountsof something andkeepit in asafe, oftensecret,place 贮藏，囤积During thesiegepeoplebeganhoardingfoodandsupplies.围困期间，人们开始囤积食品和日用品。 There would be enoughfoodon adailybasisifpeoplewere not hoarding it.如果人们不大量囤积食品，按日常用量应当会有足够的食品供应。 alargeamountof something that someone hassavedandhidden 大量储藏和积存的物品Wefoundahugehoardoftinnedfoodin thebasement.我们在地下室发现了一大批储藏的罐头食品。 hoard| American Dictionarytocollectalargesupplyof something, more than you need now, often because youthinkyou will not beableto get itlater: Manypeoplehoardedfoodinwartime. ECONOMICS,FINANCEtocollecta lot ofmoneyorobjects, sometimessecretly: Afinancialcrisiscancausepeopleto hoard. Whenoilpricesrise, thetendencyto hoardgoldalsorises. ECONOMICS,FINANCEalargeamountofmoneyorobjectsthat someone hascollected, sometimessecretly: Theyfounda hoard ofdollarbillsin the suspect'sattic. Thecompanyhas avastcashhoard that justkeepsongrowing. Examplesofhoardhoard Similarly, a scholar s gathering of materials may also be viewed as hoarding items that predict future reward.From theCambridge English Corpus In animals, such foraging activity frequently involves hoarding gathering food, not for immediate consumption, but for future use.From theCambridge English Corpus Apart from hoarding, much gold and silver was transformed into jewelry, gold and silver wire, plates, vases, goblets, and the like.From theCambridge English Corpus Both are of great value and can be either hoarded or distributed.From theCambridge English Corpus An increase in hoarding activity would lead to acute shortages and thus to price increases.From theCambridge English Corpus In hoarding money there is no benefit, and being without benefit, it creates no satisfaction.From theCambridge English Corpus Rather, households often hoarded cowries, usually burying them for safe keeping.From theCambridge English Corpus Do not be a miser, hoarding your talents and abilities and knowledge, either among yourselves or in your dealings with your clients, patients or flock.From theCambridge English Corpus Firstly, the coin hoards listed in the literature were only the ones recorded in publications available to a particular author.From theCambridge English Corpus The regular occurrence of hoards with gold coins and torcs confirms the view that gold objects indeed played a role in the gift exchange between tribal leaders and their followers.From theCambridge English Corpus Profiteering and hoarding were serious problems.From theCambridge English Corpus If one hoards and the other shares, the one who receives some of each medicine (the hoarder) will survive with 80% probability, but the other will surely die.From theCambridge English Corpus They responded to it by buying land and cattle, hoarding gold and providing mercantile forms of credit to producers that would repay in kind rather than in depreciated currency.From theCambridge English Corpus The first response to high childhood mortality has been termed the 'strategy of hoarding' living children, and the second has been labelled the 'strategy of replacing' dying children.From theCambridge English Corpus Mental containment, rather than being construed here as the wise accumulation or safekeeping of mental treasure, is now depicted as ungenerous hoarding that carries a risk of social harm.From theCambridge English Corpus These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |