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Wordnet 3.0

VERB (3)

1. collect or gather;
- Example: "Journals are accumulating in my office"
- Example: "The work keeps piling up"
[syn: accumulate, cumulate, conglomerate, pile up, gather, amass]

2. arrange into piles or stacks;
- Example: "She piled up her books in my living room"
[syn: pile up, heap up, stack up]

3. get or gather together;
- Example: "I am accumulating evidence for the man's unfaithfulness to his wife"
- Example: "She is amassing a lot of data for her thesis"
- Example: "She rolled up a small fortune"
[syn: roll up, collect, accumulate, pile up, amass, compile, hoard]



WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

pile up
    v 1: collect or gather; "Journals are accumulating in my
         office"; "The work keeps piling up" [syn: accumulate,
         cumulate, conglomerate, pile up, gather, amass]
    2: arrange into piles or stacks; "She piled up her books in my
       living room" [syn: pile up, heap up, stack up]
    3: 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" [syn:
       roll up, collect, accumulate, pile up, amass,
       compile, hoard]


Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

45 Moby Thesaurus words for "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