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HOARD

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

A secret store of valuables or money

Synonyms:

cache; hoard; stash

Classified under:

Nouns denoting possession and transfer of possession

Hypernyms ("hoard" is a kind of...):

fund; stock; store (a supply of something available for future use)

Derivation:

hoard (save up as for future use)

 II. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Get or gather together

Example:

She rolled up a small fortune

Synonyms:

accumulate; amass; collect; compile; hoard; pile up; roll up

Classified under:

Verbs of buying, selling, owning

Hypernyms (to "hoard" is one way to...):

hive away; lay in; put in; salt away; stack away; stash away; store (keep or lay aside for future use)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "hoard"):

run up (pile up (debts or scores))

corral (collect or gather)

collect; pull in (get or bring together)

come up; scrape; scrape up; scratch (gather (money or other resources) together over time)

chunk; lump (put together indiscriminately)

bale (make into a bale)

catch (take in and retain)

fund (accumulate a fund for the discharge of a recurrent liability)

fund (place or store up in a fund for accumulation)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Sentence example:

They hoard the money in the closet

Sense 2

Meaning:

Save up as for future use

Synonyms:

cache; hive up; hoard; lay away; squirrel away; stash

Classified under:

Verbs of buying, selling, owning

Hypernyms (to "hoard" is one way to...):

lay aside; save; save up (accumulate money for future use)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Sentence example:

They hoard the money in the closet

Derivation:

hoard (a secret store of valuables or money)

hoarder (a person who accumulates things and hides them away for future use)

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 Context examples: 

As to her money, she first secreted it in odd corners, wrapped in a rag or an old curl-paper; but some of these hoards having been discovered by the housemaid, Eliza, fearful of one day losing her valued treasure, consented to intrust it to her mother, at a usurious rate of interest—fifty or sixty per cent.; which interest she exacted every quarter, keeping her accounts in a little book with anxious accuracy.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)