I. noun
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I kept my own secret hoard of chocolate cookies in a big tin under the sink.
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And somewhere inside it, was the Presley hoard , or was going to be real shortly.
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But since people sometimes tied money into the knot of a large kerchief, it also means a hoard of money.
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Nor can the hoards be closely related to the campaigns of the war.
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The distribution of hoards might also be expected to reflect patterns of warfare and of wealth.
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This was supposed to be a set of professional fence-building equipment, but actually looked like a hoard of junk.
II. verb
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My grandmother hoards everything - jam jars, plastic bags, pieces of string - her house is a mess.
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Some gasoline dealers began hoarding supplies.
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They've been hoarding food and water, convinced that some kind of catastrophe is coming.
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All those words he had hoarded for so long and released so grudgingly.
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Everyone knows it is illegal to hoard a spot.
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He had hoarded the butt-ends of candles as another prisoner would hoard pieces of food.
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Life is hoarded elsewhere by others.
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That tends to make people want to hoard .
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The secret, almost inaccessible haven where the black-robed savants hoarded the wisdom that sustained the people of Arcadia.
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Torney, who hoards old Harley-Davidson metallic signs for his own pleasure, was proud of his purchase that Sunday.
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Typically, sodium ions are excluded and potassium ions are hoarded.