Antonyms for hoard

Grammar : Noun, verb

Spell : hawrd, hohrd

Phonetic Transcription : hɔrd, hoʊrd

Definition of hoard

Origin : Old English hord "treasure, valuable stock or store," from Proto-Germanic *huzdam (cf. Old Saxon hord "treasure, hidden or inmost place," Old Norse hodd, German Hort, Gothic huzd "treasure," literally "hidden treasure"), from PIE root *(s)keu- "to cover, conceal" (see hide (n.1)).

noun stockpile
verb put away, accumulate

Example sentences :

Had the workmen dug six inches deeper, they would have found the hoard.
Extract from : « Other Tales and Sketches » by Nathaniel Hawthorne

This was the one in which the dragon lay guarding the hoard.
Extract from : « Opera Stories from Wagner » by Florence Akin

It was like listening to a child babbling of its hoard of shells.
Extract from : « American Notes » by Rudyard Kipling

In the grave on the hill a hoard it guarded, in the stone-barrow steep.
Extract from : « Beowulf » by Anonymous

After his death the dragon takes possession of the hoard and watches over it.
Extract from : « Beowulf » by Anonymous

Then it was agreed that Lisa should keep the hoard in her chest of drawers.
Extract from : « The Fat and the Thin » by Emile Zola

Amongst this hoard of females, however, Florent had one friend.
Extract from : « The Fat and the Thin » by Emile Zola

Worship his superiorities; wish him not less by a thought, but hoard and tell them all.
Extract from : « Essays, First Series » by Ralph Waldo Emerson

He has, moreover, a hoard of debts, the result of the luxury of his sainted forefathers.
Extract from : « Blood and Iron » by John Hubert Greusel

If, on the contrary, one should prefer to hoard his wealth, he would be free to do so.
Extract from : « Socialism » by John Spargo

Synonyms for hoard

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