Antonyms for store upstore up

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1. store upverb

   Synonyms:
   store

2. store upverb

   To build up a supply of something.

   Synonyms:
   store

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1. store up

   To amass is to bring together materials that make a mass, a great bulk or quantity. With some occasional exceptions, accumulate is applied to the more gradual, amass to the more rapid gathering of money or materials, amass referring to the general result or bulk, accumulate to the particular process or rate of gain. We say interest is accumulated (or accumulates) rather than is amassed; he accumulated a fortune in the course of years; he rapidly amassed a fortune by shrewd speculations. Goods or money for immediate distribution are said to be collected rather than amassed. They may be stored up for a longer or shorter time; but to hoard is always with a view of permanent retention, generally selfish. Aggregate is now most commonly used of numbers and amounts; as, the expenses will aggregate a round million.

   Antonyms:
   disperse, dissipate, divide, parcel, portion, scatter, spend, squander, waste

   Synonyms:
   accumulate, aggregate, amass, collect, gather, heap up, hoard, hoard up, pile up

   Preposition:
   Amass for oneself; for a purpose; from a distance; with great labor; by industry.

How to use store up in a sentence?

1. William Keeton:

   Good tree growth last year allowed the trees to store up energy reserves and nutrients over the winter, resulting in robust leaf development this spring and summer, but this works the other way too... a bad drought one year can lead to poorer foliage the next.

2. Potash Corp:

   Bottom line, the risk of inventory change will always overshadow the desire to store up.

3. Naoto Hayashi:

   In particular, we want them to store up at least three days' worth of food and water.

4. Sam Calisch:

   As more of these critical pieces of our infrastructure of our lives — our cars, our heating, our water — move to electricity, suddenly it becomes far easier to take control over their long-term security, it's pretty easy to buy a battery and store up that extra electricity so that if you do live in an area where you experience blackouts, you can create this sense of security for yourself.

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