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pile up

pi·leup

fairly common

verb

1.

collect or gather

  • “Journals are accumulating in my office”
  • “The work keeps piling up”
2.

arrange into piles or stacks

  • “She piled up her books in my living room”
3.

get or gather together

  • “I am accumulating evidence for the man”
  • “;”
  • “;”

Origin

Deverbal from pile up.

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