pile up

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verb

1. collect or gather (Freq. 4)
- Journals are accumulating in my office
- The work keeps piling up
• Syn:
accumulate, cumulate, conglomerate, gather, amass
• Derivationally related forms:
gathering (for: gather), conglomeration (for: conglomerate), cumulative (for: cumulate), cumulus (for: cumulate), cumulation (for: cumulate), accumulative (for: accumulate), accumulation (for: accumulate)
• Hypernyms:
increase
• Hyponyms:
backlog, accrete, drift
• Verb Frames:
- Something ----s
- Something is ----ing PP
2. arrange into piles or stacks (Freq. 2)
- She piled up her books in my living room
• Syn:
heap up, stack up
• Hypernyms:
gather, garner, collect, pull together
• Verb Frames:
- Something ----s
- Something is ----ing PP
- Somebody ----s something
- Somebody ----s something PP
3. 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
• Syn:
roll up, collect, accumulate, amass, compile, hoard
• Derivationally related forms:
compilation (for: compile), accumulative (for: accumulate), accumulation (for: accumulate), collection (for: collect), collecting (for: collect)
• Hypernyms:
store, hive away, lay in, put in, salt away,
stack away, stash away
• Hyponyms:
run up, corral, collect, pull in, scrape,
scrape up, scratch, come up, lump, chunk, bale,
catch, fund
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s something
- They pile up the money in the closet