pile up
Britishverb
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to gather or be gathered in a pile; accumulate
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informal to crash or cause to crash
noun
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Accumulate, as in The leaves piled up in the yard , or He piled up a huge fortune . In this idiom pile means “form a heap or mass of something.” [Mid-1800s]
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Be involved in a crash, as in When the police arrived, at least four cars had piled up . [Late 1800s]
Example Sentences
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As a result the vehicle has been piling up on dealer lots even with hefty discounts, according to industry data.
Merchandise piled up in stores, leaving them cluttered.
More waste arrives daily, piling up like technicolour snowdrifts along the roads and rivers of Xa Cau, one of hundreds of "craft" recycling villages encircling Vietnam's capital Hanoi where waste is sorted, shredded and melted.
From Barron's
They forced more turnovers, 20 to 13, and piled up 25 assists to the Trojans’ 11.
From Los Angeles Times
Digital-asset-treasury companies are businesses that have adopted a strategy of piling up their balance sheets with crypto — even if historically many of these companies had little or nothing to do with crypto.
From MarketWatch
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