Meaning

1 senses

  1. To secrete or store privately, as a hamster does with food in its cheek pouches.

    hamstern

    хомячитьxomjačitʹ

Examples

109 sentences

  1. Feed the hamster.

    Нагодуй хом'яка. — deniko

    ruПокормите хомяка. — marafon

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  2. My hamster escaped from its cage.

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  3. Would you ever eat a hamster?

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  4. What do you feed your hamsters?

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  5. Is that a hamster or a gerbil?

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Translations

2 languages
Русский
By meaning 1
to stash like a hamster, to hoard:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
to stash like a hamster, to hoard:

Origin

Borrowed from German Hamster (see for etymology). Displaced earlier term German rat.

Borrowed from German Hamster (see for etymology). Displaced earlier term German rat.

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Forms

hamsters, hamstering, hamstered, hamstered
Base formhamster · to hamster
3rd person singularhamsters
Present participlehamstering
Past simplehamstered
Past participlehamstered

irregular

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theyhamster
he, she, ithamsters

Past simpleLesson

all personshamstered

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave hamstered
he, she, ithas hamstered

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill hamster

Synonyms

1 synonyms
stash

Lessons for this word

3 lessons

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
hammockhamperC2hamstringhandA1

Dictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.

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