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hoarder

/hawrd, hohrd/US // hɔrd, hoʊrd //UK // (hɔːd) //

囤积者,囤货者,储物者,囤积居奇者

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a supply or accumulation that is hidden or carefully guarded for preservation, future use, etc.: a vast hoard of silver.
v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to accumulate for preservation, future use, etc., in a hidden or carefully guarded place: to hoard food during a shortage.
v.无主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to accumulate money, food, or the like, in a hidden or carefully guarded place for preservation, future use, etc.

Synonyms & Antonyms

Examples

  • I was, she diagnosed, half joking and half horrified, a “digital hoarder.”

  • Men and women “go on bucket list,” some commit suicide, and others go full on doomsday hoarder.

  • She was a hoarder and a person of uncertain origin: was she French or merely someone pretending to be French?

  • In his life's story there were no paragraphs that old Maddy was a hoarder of gold or a promoter or exploiter of things found.

  • He seems to have deviated from the common practice; to have been a hoarder in his first years, and a squanderer in his last.

  • Henriette often declares that he acts as if he were afraid of starving—he is such a hoarder for "rainy days."

  • The commercial hoarder, who had a regular business besides and kept his books accordingly, was too much for these men.

  • Now that God may shew his dislike against this, he doth, as it were, license the people to curse such an hoarder up.