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Pile up   /paɪl əp/   Listen
Pile up

verb
1.
Collect or gather.  Synonyms: accumulate, amass, conglomerate, cumulate, gather.  "The work keeps piling up"
2.
Arrange into piles or stacks.  Synonyms: heap up, stack up.
3.
Get or gather together.  Synonyms: accumulate, amass, collect, compile, hoard, roll up.  "She is amassing a lot of data for her thesis" , "She rolled up a small fortune"






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"Pile up" Quotes from Famous Books



... a dun, Lurks at the gate: Let the dog wait; Happy we'll be! Drink, every one; Pile up the coals, Fill the red bowls, Round the ...
— In The Yule-Log Glow, Vol. IV (of IV) • Harrison S. Morris

... took life too much in earnest," she said. "It is fortunately impossible either to work or to pile up money forever, and a holiday is good for everybody. I am going down to White Rock Cove to see if my marine garden is as beautiful as it used to be. Would you care to inspect it and carry ...
— Thurston of Orchard Valley • Harold Bindloss

... of Salmasius, his vanity, and the vanity of Madame de Saumaise, her ascendancy over her husband, his narrow pedantry, his ignorance of everything but grammar and words. He exhausts the Latin vocabulary of abuse to pile up every epithet of contumely and execration on the head of his adversary. It but amounts to calling Salmasius fool and knave through a couple of hundred pages, till the exaggeration of the style defeats ...
— Milton • Mark Pattison

... upon Robert Hooke, described as "Reader of the Mathematicks in Gresham Colledge," Peter Mills and Edward Jermyn or Jarman. By way of preparation for the survey, the owners of houses that had been destroyed were again ordered (9 Oct.) to clear their foundations of rubbish, and to pile up the bricks and stones within fourteen days, so that every man's property might be "more exactly ...
— London and the Kingdom - Volume II • Reginald R. Sharpe

... Pierce trabori, penetri. Piety pieco. Pig porko. Pigeon kolombo. Pigeon-hole (for papers, etc.) faketaro. Pigeon-house kolombejo. Pigmy pigmeo. Pike (fish) ezoko. Pike (tool) pikilego. Pike (weapon) ponardego. Pile up amasigi. Pile (logs) sxtiparo. [Error in book: stiparo] Pile (support) paliso, subteno. Pile (heap) amaso—ajxo. Pile (electric) elektra pilo. Piles hemorojdo. Pilfer sxteleti. Pilferer sxtelisto. Pilgrim pilgrimanto. Pilgrimage ...
— English-Esperanto Dictionary • John Charles O'Connor and Charles Frederic Hayes


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