ALL meanings of pile up
pile up
P p - intransitivephrasal verb pile up accumulate 1
- transitivephrasal verb pile up place on top of one another 1
- noun pile up an assemblage of things laid or lying one upon the other: a pile of papers; a pile of bricks. 1
- noun pile up Informal. a large number, quantity, or amount of anything: a pile of work. 1
- noun pile up a heap of wood on which a dead body, a living person, or a sacrifice is burned; pyre. 1
- noun pile up a lofty or large building or group of buildings: the noble pile of Windsor Castle. 1
- noun pile up Informal. a large accumulation of money: They made a pile on Wall Street. 1
- noun pile up a bundle of pieces of iron ready to be welded and drawn out into bars; fagot. 1
- noun pile up reactor (def 4). 1
- noun pile up Electricity. voltaic pile. 1
- verb with object pile up to lay or dispose in a pile (often followed by up): to pile up the fallen autumn leaves. 1
- verb with object pile up to accumulate or store (often followed by up): to pile up money; squirrels piling up nuts against the winter. 1
- verb with object pile up to cover or load with a pile: He piled the wagon with hay. 1
- verb without object pile up to accumulate, as money, debts, evidence, etc. (usually followed by up). 1
- verb without object pile up Informal. to move as a group in a more or less confused, disorderly cluster: to pile off a train. 1
- verb without object pile up to gather, accumulate, or rise in a pile or piles (often followed by up): The snow is piling up on the roofs. 1
- phrasal verb pile up If you pile up a quantity of things or if they pile up, they gradually form a pile. 0
- phrasal verb pile up If you pile up work, problems, or losses or if they pile up, you get more and more of them. 0
- countable noun pile up A pile-up is a road accident in which a lot of vehicles crash into each other. 0
- verb pile up to gather or be gathered in a pile; accumulate 0
- verb pile up to crash or cause to crash 0
- noun pile up a multiple collision of vehicles 0
- noun pile up a road traffic accident involving several vehicles 0