All 7 Uses
hoard
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Jasmine, by Bharati Mukherjee
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- The Depression turned her into a hoarder, too.†
p. 16.7hoarder = someone who gathers valuable things and stores them
- He's hoarded things, big things like road signs and Drug Town posters, medium things like record players and radios thrown out even by Goodwill, and little things like nail files.†
p. 30.2hoarded = gathered something valuable and stored it
- In a makeshift birthing but in Hasnapur, Jullundhar District, Punjab, India, I was born the year the harvest was so good that even my father, the reluctant tiller of thirty acres, had grain to hoard for drought.†
p. 39.3hoard = gathers something valuable and stores it
- She scolded my father into letting me stay in school after classes were over and daze myself with Masterji's hoard of English-language books.†
p. 41.9
- Impulsively I showed him the empty tin of biscuits in which I hoarded my savings from the detergent route.†
p. 82.3hoarded = gathered something valuable and stored it
- No wonder he fled into the silence of circuitry, in crossbreeding appliances, in hoarding and restoring.†
p. 224.9 *hoarding = gathering something valuable and storing it
- I haven't figured out the what and why of Du's hoarding.†
p. 225.7
Definitions:
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(1)
(hoard) to gather something valuable and store it; or a collection of such things
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)