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unhoard

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Etymology

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From un- +‎ hoard.

Verb

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unhoard (third-person singular simple present unhoards, present participle unhoarding, simple past and past participle unhoarded)

  1. (transitive) To take or steal from a hoard, e.g. to pilfer.
    • 1667, John Milton, “Book IV”, in Paradise Lost. [], London: [] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker []; [a]nd by Robert Boulter []; [a]nd Matthias Walker, [], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: [], London: Basil Montagu Pickering [], 1873, →OCLC:
      a thief bent to unhoard the cash
      Of some rich burgher

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