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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]