pile (sth) up
— phrasal verb with pile uk/paɪl/us/paɪl/verb
(FORM A PILE)
to form a pile, or to put a lot of things into a pile
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Placing and positioning an object
- -based
- appose
- bung
- change sth around
- clap
- consign
- consign sb/sth to sth
- fit
- manoeuvre
- perch
- pop
- position
- sandwich sth together
- set sb down
- shelve
- shove
- situate
- stand
- stuff
- whack
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(INCREASE)
B2 (of something bad) to increase:
Unpaid bills began to pile up alarmingly.
They piled up such a huge debt that they soon went bankrupt.
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Increasing and intensifying
- -ify
- a snowball effect idiom
- accretion
- accumulate
- accumulative
- add fuel to the fire idiom
- balloon
- bump
- dial
- growing
- heighten
- hot up
- increase
- pile
- rack
- speed-up
- spurt
- step
- step sth up
- supersize
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