unhoard
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[edit]Verb
[edit]unhoard (third-person singular simple present unhoards, present participle unhoarding, simple past and past participle unhoarded)
- (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
References
[edit]- “unhoard”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.