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Wiktionary

  1. v. transitive To form a pile, stack, or heap.
  2. v. idiomatic, intransitive To collect or accumulate, as a backlog.

WordNet 3.0

  1. v. get or gather together
  2. v. arrange into piles or stacks
  3. v. collect or gather

Examples

  • “The heat was stifling ... the whole length of the right bank was smothered in dust clouds as more and more vehicles beean to pile up there.”

    Barbarossa

  • “The Hurribombers and the types bear - ing 40-mm. cannons were effective against vehicles, or shipping, but not against ground troops, where heavy bombers were needed to dislodge them or pile up an advance.”

    The HurricaneStory

  • “The one fly in the ointment was the pressure to pile up qualifications and publications once she decided to go for her Ph.D. and become a professor.”

    Conferences are Murder

  • “My wife, the journalist Jean Marbella, who rolls her eyes when the books on arcane subjects begin to pile up in the bedroom and announce the arrival of a new Swagger adventure, but hangs in through it all.”

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  • “Moreover, I wish to do my best to pile up virtuous deeds for the life to come, so encouraging my heart I went to the Ishiyama Temple after the twentieth day of the Frost month [1045].”

    Diaries of Court Ladies of Old Japan

  • “The description of Verres's rapacity in regard to the corn tax is long and complex, and need hardly be followed at length, unless by those who desire to know how the iniquity of such a one could make the most of an imposition which was in itself very bad, and pile up the burden till the poor province was unable to bear it.”

    The Life of Cicero

  • “The trailer had been used as an office for the business, but Uncle Jake had let the secretary go and let the bills pile up on the beat-up wooden desk that sat in the living room area.”

    Simon & Schuster: Change Me Into Zeus’s Daughter

  • “The worst-hit section of the highway is in between Kangpokpi to Mao town (65 km), as the villagers pile up stones upto 4/5 feet along the route, besides felling trees and making large trenches.”

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  • “But I observe the waiter hovering uneasily about us while his colleagues pile up chairs and carry away the cruets.”

    Unnatural Death

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