Definitions for pile-up
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1. pile-upnoun

   A traffic accident or collision involving multiple vehicles.

   Traffic was backed up for miles due to a twelve-car pile-up on the freeway earlier today.

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1. pile-up

   A multiple vehicle collision (colloquially known as a pile-up, multi-car collision, multi-vehicle collision, or simply a multi) is a road traffic collision involving many vehicles. Generally occurring on high-capacity and high-speed routes such as freeways, they are one of the deadliest forms of traffic collisions. The most disastrous pileups have involved more than a hundred vehicles.

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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. 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.

2. Clay Bonnyman:

   There's tons and tons of veterans, tons and tons of families that are trying to get records, that those requests, they're just going to pile up and pile up and pile up and who knows if they'll ever be fulfilled.

3. Volodymyr Zelenskyy:

   To do this to a peaceful city, what the occupiers did, is a terror that will be remembered for centures to come, 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.

4. Trevor Smith:

   He had this whimsical observation, maybe one day we could have an animal that would pile up the sand after storms.

5. Michigan State Police:

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

References

1. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Pile-up
2. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pile-up