hoard's Usage Examples:

slavering hoards rush to block the exits.

Rodmar, for the sake of the treasure, was slain by his sons Fafnir and Regin; and Fafnir, seizing the whole, retired to a desolate heath and, in the form of a snake or dragon, brooded over the hoard.

usurers ' capital remained as an unproductive hoard.

The west side of the palace contained a series of 18 magazines with great store jars and cists and large hoards of clay documents.

advertising hoardings or shop displays on a footway, road sign or lamp column.

His lands, together with a great hoard of movable wealth, were seized, and he was accused of misappropriation and venality.

Every day, thousands of mobile advertising hoardings are on the roads of the United Kingdom.

Don't try to change a hoarder's mind about the reason for his compulsions or try to throw away or give away his collections; it will only make him want to push you away.

Many hoarders also know they have a problem, but they can't do anything about it.

People who compulsively hoard things do it because they fear that they will need the items at some point in the near or distant future.

Mistress now of the inexhaustible hoard of the Nibelungs, Kriemhild sought to win a following by lavish largesses; but this Hagen frustrated by seizing the treasure, with the consent of the kings, and sinking it in the Rhine, all taking an oath never to reveal its hidingplace, without the consent of the others, so long as they should live (Avent.

Mr Armstrong: On advertisement hoardings, everyone advertises from his point of view.

Synonyms:

run up, stash away, stack away, scrape, lump, amass, store, pile up, come up, scratch, salt away, bale, scrape up, compile, corral, hive away, chunk, accumulate, collect, fund, pull in, roll up, catch, put in, lay in,

Antonyms:

unpack, unfurl, stay, rush, juvenile,