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Synonyms for pile-up

  • verb
  • noun

Most common

mount up pile heap heap up

All synonyms

Verb

1. Accumulate — to form a pile, stack, or heap

accumulate, amass, heap up, pile, stack up, heap, stack, bank, hoard, collect, mount up, conglomerate, agglomerate, mound, gather, cumulate, compile, upheap

Other

head up

Noun

build-up, dog pile, roll-up

Antonyms

unstack, unpile

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Definitions

  1. v. 1

    To form a pile, stack, or heap.

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

  2. n. 1

    A pile, a group of people or things which have piled up on one another, especially A pile of crashed vehicles due to a traffic accident.

    Traffic was backed up for miles due to a twelve-car pile-up on the freeway earlier today.

Related words

Is a kind of
round up
Other spellings
pile up pileup

Forms

Plural
pile-ups → build-ups, roll-ups…

Example sentences

  • pile What is this pile of fur doing in the living room?
  • heap The workers heap up the soil to create a barrier.

By length

4 letters
bank1, pile1, heap1
5 letters
stack1, mound1, hoard1, amass2
6 letters
gather2, upheap
7 letters
collect2, compile2
8 letters
cumulate
10 letters
accumulate4
11 letters
agglomerate4
12 letters
conglomerate4

The small number after each word is its number of syllables (amass2 = 2 syllables).