pile up
Verb
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Collect or gather (synset 200158612)
"Journals are accumulating in my office"; "The work keeps piling up"is a type of: increase - become bigger or greater in amountsubtypes:
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Arrange into piles or stacks (synset 201506930)
"She piled up her books in my living room"
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Get or gather together (synset 202309962)
"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"is a type of: hive away, lay in, put in, salt away, stack away, stash away, store - keep or lay aside for future usesubtypes:
- run up - pile up (debts or scores)
- corral - collect or gather
- collect, pull in - get or bring together
- come up, scrape, scrape up, scratch - gather (money or other resources) together over time
- chunk, lump - put together indiscriminately
- bale - make into a bale
- catch - take in and retain
- fund - accumulate a fund for the discharge of a recurrent liability
- fund - place or store up in a fund for accumulation
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