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English verb: pile up | |||
| 1. | pile up (change) collect or gather | ||
| Samples | Journals are accumulating in my office. The work keeps piling up. | ||
| Synonyms | accumulate, amass, conglomerate, cumulate, gather | ||
| Pattern of use | Something ----s. Something is ----ing PP | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | increase | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | accrete, backlog, drift | ||
| 2. | pile up (contact) arrange into piles or stacks | ||
| Samples | She piled up her books in my living room. | ||
| Synonyms | heap up, stack up | ||
| Pattern of use | Something ----s. Something is ----ing PP. Somebody ----s something. Somebody ----s something PP | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | collect, garner, gather, pull together | ||
| 3. | pile up (possession) get or gather together | ||
| Samples | 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. | ||
| Examples | They pile up the money in the closet | ||
| Synonyms | accumulate, amass, collect, compile, hoard, roll up | ||
| Pattern of use | Somebody ----s something | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | hive away, lay in, put in, salt away, stack away, stash away, store | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | bale, catch, chunk, collect, come up, corral, fund, fund, lump, pull in, run up, scrape, scrape up, scratch | ||
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