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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.

ChatGPT

  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. Volodymyr Zelenskyy:

    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.

  2. Soomi Lee:

    When sleep loss occurs almost every day, which means( it's) chronic, that's when our body and mind can not tolerate anymore, the research shows that consecutive sleep loss results in incomplete recovery and stress pile-up and so degrade our daily well-being.

  3. King Lee:

    We can't walk, because all their goods pile up like mountains on the streets, we should not endure this silently.

  4. Darius Paduch:

    Men who are healthy are not expected to lose erectile function solely on the basis of age. However, with each decade of life there is a higher and higher rate of men with ED because of age-related disorders ... which pile up and can cause erection problems. we approach the issue in a matter-of-fact way, so most patients are not embarrassed, as you might think they would be.

  5. Michigan State Police:

    As you can imagine, it's not easy to count vehicles as they pile up.


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