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PILE UP
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I. (verb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Collect or gather
Example:
The work keeps piling up
Synonyms:
accumulate; amass; conglomerate; cumulate; gather; pile up
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Hypernyms (to "pile up" is one way to...):
increase (become bigger or greater in amount)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "pile up"):
backlog (accumulate and create a backlog)
accrete (grow or become attached by accretion)
drift (be piled up in banks or heaps by the force of wind or a current)
Sentence frames:
Something ----s
Something is ----ing PP
Sense 2
Meaning:
Arrange into piles or stacks
Example:
She piled up her books in my living room
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging
Hypernyms (to "pile up" is one way to...):
collect; garner; gather; pull together (assemble or get together)
Sentence frames:
Something ----s
Something is ----ing PP
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s something PP
Sense 3
Meaning:
Get or gather together
Example:
She rolled up a small fortune
Synonyms:
accumulate; amass; collect; compile; hoard; pile up; roll up
Classified under:
Verbs of buying, selling, owning
Hypernyms (to "pile up" is one way to...):
hive away; lay in; put in; salt away; stack away; stash away; store (keep or lay aside for future use)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "pile up"):
run up (pile up (debts or scores))
corral (collect or gather)
collect; pull in (get or bring together)
come up; scrape; scrape up; scratch (gather (money or other resources) together over time)
chunk; lump (put together indiscriminately)
bale (make into a bale)
catch (take in and retain)
fund (accumulate a fund for the discharge of a recurrent liability)
fund (place or store up in a fund for accumulation)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Sentence example:
They pile up the money in the closet
