pile up
English
Verb
pile up (third-person singular simple present piles up, present participle piling up, simple past and past participle piled up)
- (transitive) To form a pile, stack, or heap.
- The kids piled up their boots and coats by the back door.
- 1898, J. Meade Falkner, Moonfleet, Chapter 4
- And still the hours passed, and at last I knew by the glimmer of light in the tomb above that the sun had risen again, and a maddening thirst had hold of me. And then I thought of all the barrels piled up in the vault and of the liquor that they held; and stuck not because 'twas spirit, for I would scarce have paused to sate that thirst even with molten lead.
- 1977, Agatha Christie, chapter 2, in An Autobiography, part II, London: Collins, →ISBN:
- If I close my eyes I can see Marie today as I saw her then. Round, rosy face, snub nose, dark hair piled up in a chignon.
- (idiomatic, intransitive) To collect or accumulate, as a backlog.
- The requests piled up while she was away.
Synonyms
- (form a pile): heap up; see also Thesaurus:pile up
- (accumulate): head up
Derived terms
Translations
to form a pile etc.
idiomatic: to accumulate
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