Antonyms for pile uppile up

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1. pile upverb

   To form a pile, stack, or heap.

   The kids piled up their boots and coats by the back door.

   Synonyms:
   heap up

2. pile upverb

   To collect or accumulate, as a backlog.

   The requests piled up while she was away.

   Synonyms:
   head up

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1. pile up

   To amass is to bring together materials that make a mass, a great bulk or quantity. With some occasional exceptions, accumulate is applied to the more gradual, amass to the more rapid gathering of money or materials, amass referring to the general result or bulk, accumulate to the particular process or rate of gain. We say interest is accumulated (or accumulates) rather than is amassed; he accumulated a fortune in the course of years; he rapidly amassed a fortune by shrewd speculations. Goods or money for immediate distribution are said to be collected rather than amassed. They may be stored up for a longer or shorter time; but to hoard is always with a view of permanent retention, generally selfish. Aggregate is now most commonly used of numbers and amounts; as, the expenses will aggregate a round million.

   Antonyms:
   disperse, dissipate, divide, parcel, portion, scatter, spend, squander, waste

   Synonyms:
   accumulate, aggregate, amass, collect, gather, heap up, hoard, hoard up, store up

   Preposition:
   Amass for oneself; for a purpose; from a distance; with great labor; by industry.

Matched Categories

1. • Gather
   • Increase
   • Store

Princeton's WordNetRate these antonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. accumulate, cumulate, conglomerate, pile up, gather, amassverb

   collect or gather

   "Journals are accumulating in my office"; "The work keeps piling up"

   Synonyms:
   assemble, heap up, garner, hoard, amass, get together, pucker, meet, conglomerate, roll up, gather, foregather, gain, stack up, tuck, collect, pull together, accumulate, compile, cumulate, forgather

2. pile up, heap up, stack upverb

   arrange into piles or stacks

   "She piled up her books in my living room"

   Synonyms:
   accumulate, cumulate, heap up, hoard, roll up, stack up, compile, gather, collect, amass, conglomerate

3. roll up, collect, accumulate, pile up, amass, compile, hoardverb

   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"

   Synonyms:
   heap up, call for, furl, lay away, hoard, stash, cache, amass, gather up, bundle up, wrap up, hive up, squirrel away, compose, roll up, take in, pull in, gather, roll, pick up, conglomerate, bundle, stack up, collect, pull together, accumulate, compile, cumulate, garner

How to use pile up in a sentence?

1. Van Dam:

   Early season snowpack can be highly unstable because of the lack of consistent storms, once the storm door is open to more frequent snow events in January and February, snow begins to pile up in layers on top of the unstable, early season snowfall.

2. Michigan State Police:

   As you can imagine, it's not easy to count vehicles as they pile up.

3. The IEA:

   While a rebalancing has clearly begun, the process is likely to be prolonged as a supply overhang is expected to persist through 2016 - suggesting global inventories will pile up further.

4. Volodymyr Zelenskyy:

   To do this to a peaceful city, what the occupiers did, is a terror that will be remembered for centures to come, in places where there were especially fierce battles, the bodies of Russian soldiers simply pile up along our line of defense -- and no one is collecting these bodies.

5. Atsuo Ito:

   The decision for Amari to quit was made promptly and seemed almost clear cut, so that didn't harm ratings so much, but if a lot of other things pile up, it's inevitable that voters get the impression the administration is growing sloppy -- and I think that impression is strengthening.

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