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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Verb pile up has 3 senses

• pile up(v = verb.change) accumulate, amass, conglomerate, cumulate, gather - collect or gather; "Journals are accumulating in my office"; "The work keeps piling up"
is one way to increase
Sample sentences:
Something ----s
Something is ----ing PP

• pile up(v = verb.contact) heap up, stack up - arrange into piles or stacks; "She piled up her books in my living room"
is one way to collect, garner, gather, pull together
Sample sentences:
Something ----s
Something is ----ing PP
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s something PP

• pile up(v = verb.possession) accumulate, amass, collect, compile, hoard, roll up - get or gather together; "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 one way to hive away, lay in, put in, salt away, stack away, stash away, store
Sample sentence:
They pile up the money in the closet

THESAURUS

pile up

accumulate, amass, backlog, bank, bank up, beach, cast away, collect, cumulate, drift, garner, garner up, gather into barns, ground, heap, heap up, hide, hill, hoard, hoard up, hold, keep, lay up, mound, pile, put up, pyramid, rick, run aground, save, save up, secrete, shipwreck, squirrel, squirrel away, stack, stack up, stock up, stockpile, store up, strand, take the ground, treasure, treasure up, wreck

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pile up

Redundancy

VB superabound, overabound, know no bounds, swarm, meet one at every turn, creep with, crawl with, bristle with, overflow, run over, flow over, well over, brim over, run riot, overrun, overstock, overlay, overcharge, overdose, overfeed, overburden, overload, overdo, overwhelm, overshoot the mark, surcharge, supersaturate, gorge, glut, load, drench, whelm, inundate, deluge, flood, drug, drug the market, hepatize, choke, cloy, accloy, suffocate, pile up, lay on thick, impregnate with, lavish, send coals to Newcastle, carry coals to Newcastle, carry owls to Athens, teach one's grandmother to suck eggs, pisces natare docere, kill the slain, gild refined gold, gild the lily, butter one's bread on both sides, put butter upon bacon, employ a steam engine to crack a nut, exaggerate, wallow in roll in, remain on one's hands, hang heavy on hand, go a begging.

Exaggeration

VB exaggerate, magnify, pile up, aggravate, amplify, overestimate, hyperbolize, overcharge, overstate, overdraw, overlay, overshoot the mark, overpraise, make over much, over the most of, strain, strain over a point, stretch, stretch a point, go great lengths, spin a long yarn, draw with a longbow, shoot with a longbow, deal in the marvelous, out-Herod Herod, run riot, talk at random, heighten, overcolor, color highly, color too highly, broder, flourish, color, puff.

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