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pile up

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  • verb transitive To form a pile, stack, or heap.
  • verb idiomatic, intransitive To collect or accumulate, as a backlog.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • verb get or gather together
  • verb arrange into piles or stacks
  • verb collect or gather

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synonyms (46)

Words with the same meaning

  1. accumulate
  2. amass
  3. backlog
  4. bank
  5. bank up
  6. beach
  7. cast away
  8. collect
  9. cumulate
  10. drift
  11. garner
  12. garner up
  13. gather into barns
  14. ground
  15. head up
  16. heap
  17. heap up
  18. hide
  19. hill
  20. hoard
  21. hoard up
  22. hold
  23. keep
  24. lay up
  25. mound
  26. pile
  27. put up
  28. pyramid
  29. rick
  30. run aground
  31. save
  32. save up
  33. secrete
  34. shipwreck
  35. squirrel
  36. squirrel away
  37. stack
  38. stack up
  39. stock up
  40. stockpile
  41. store up
  42. strand
  43. take the ground
  44. treasure
  45. treasure up
  46. wreck

hypernyms (4)

Words that are more generic or abstract

  1. collect
  2. garner
  3. gather
  4. pull together

relateds (1)

relateds

  1. pile-up

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