verb
1. collect or gather (Freq. 4)
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Journals are accumulating in my office
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The work keeps piling up
• Syn: ↑accumulate, ↑cumulate, ↑conglomerate, ↑gather, ↑amass
• Derivationally related forms:
↑gathering (for: ↑gather), ↑conglomeration (for: ↑conglomerate), ↑cumulative (for: ↑cumulate), ↑cumulus (for: ↑cumulate), ↑cumulation (for: ↑cumulate), ↑accumulative (for: ↑accumulate), ↑accumulation (for: ↑accumulate)
• Hypernyms: ↑increase
• Verb Frames:
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Something ——s
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Something is ——ing PP
2. arrange into piles or stacks (Freq. 2)
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She piled up her books in my living room
• Hypernyms: ↑gather, ↑garner, ↑collect, ↑pull together
• Verb Frames:
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Something ——s
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Something is ——ing PP
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Somebody ——s something
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Somebody ——s something PP
3. get or gather together
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I am accumulating evidence for the man's unfaithfulness to his wife
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She is amassing a lot of data for her thesis
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She rolled up a small fortune
• Derivationally related forms: ↑compilation (for: ↑compile), ↑accumulative (for: ↑accumulate), ↑accumulation (for: ↑accumulate), ↑collection (for: ↑collect), ↑collecting (for: ↑collect)
• Hypernyms:
• Hyponyms:
↑run up, ↑corral, ↑collect, ↑pull in, ↑scrape, ↑scrape up, ↑scratch, ↑come up, ↑lump, ↑chunk, ↑bale, ↑catch, ↑fund
• Verb Frames:
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Somebody ——s something
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They pile up the money in the closet
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pile up [phrasal verb]
: to increase in amount or number to a total that is difficult to manage
Work piled up while she was on vacation.
The bills are piling up.
Traffic piled up because of the accident.
Snow piled up on the cars.
— see also ↑pileup
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Main Entry: ↑pile
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ˌpile ˈup derived
to become larger in quantity or amount
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Work always piles up at the end of the year.
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Problems were beginning to pile up.
Useful english dictionary. 2012.