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Pile up

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Verb
  1. 1
    To form a pile, stack, or heap. transitive

    "The kids piled up their boots and coats by the back door."

  2. 2
    increase in amount by collecting or gathering wordnet
  3. 3
    To collect or accumulate, as a backlog. idiomatic, intransitive

    "The requests piled up while she was away."

  4. 4
    arrange into piles or stacks wordnet
  5. 5
    To sustain a motor vehicle accident; to crash. intransitive

    "Nevertheless, if there were no urgent reason for it, I did not fancy driving anything, much less a large, heavily loaded truck, by night along roads which might reasonably be expected to produce a number of hazards. If I were to pile it up, and the odds were that I should, I would lose a lot more time in finding another and transferring the load than I would by spending the night here."

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  1. 6
    get or gather together wordnet

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