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pile up

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. accumulate, cumulate, conglomerate, pile up, gather, amassverb

    collect or gather

    "Journals are accumulating in my office"; "The work keeps piling up"

  2. pile up, heap up, stack upverb

    arrange into piles or stacks

    "She piled up her books in my living room"

  3. roll up, collect, accumulate, pile up, amass, compile, hoardverb

    get or gather together

    "I am accumulating evidence for the man's unfaithfulness to his wife"; "She is amassing a lot of data for her thesis"; "She rolled up a small fortune"

Wiktionary

  1. pile upverb

    To form a pile, stack, or heap.

  2. pile upverb

    To collect or accumulate, as a backlog.

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  1. pile up

    "Pile up" generally refers to an accumulation or collection of objects, items, or tasks that are gathered together or stacked in an untidy manner. It can also refer to a traffic accident involving several vehicles.

Wikidata

  1. Pile Up

    Pile Up is a compilation of singles, B-sides, and rarities by queercore band Pansy Division. The album includes numerous cover songs including "Cowboys Are Frequently, Secretly Fond of Each Other", "Real Men", "Jack U Off", and "Smells Like Queer Spirit".

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of pile up in Chaldean Numerology is: 4

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of pile up in Pythagorean Numerology is: 7

Examples of pile up in a Sentence

  1. Atsuo Ito:

    The decision for Amari to quit was made promptly and seemed almost clear cut, so that didn't harm ratings so much, but if a lot of other things pile up, it's inevitable that voters get the impression the administration is growing sloppy -- and I think that impression is strengthening.

  2. Van Dam:

    Early season snowpack can be highly unstable because of the lack of consistent storms, once the storm door is open to more frequent snow events in January and February, snow begins to pile up in layers on top of the unstable, early season snowfall.

  3. David Doniger:

    There are people in Houston who get it, that climate change contributed to the severity of the rainfall in Hurricane Harvey, as those impacts pile up, I think that also will have a political impact in those red states.

  4. Brian Stelter:

    This was about not any single headache but about many headaches that continued to pile up.

  5. Volodymyr Zelenskyy:

    To do this to a peaceful city, what the occupiers did, is a terror that will be remembered for centures to come, in places where there were especially fierce battles, the bodies of Russian soldiers simply pile up along our line of defense -- and no one is collecting these bodies.


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