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[ verb ] collect or gather
Synonyms Examples "Journals are accumulating in my office" "The work keeps piling up" Used in print (The New York Times...)Throughout `` The_Making_of_a_President '' Mr._White shows wonderfully well how the pressures pile_up on candidates , how decisions have constantly to be made , how fatigue and illness and nervous_strain wear candidates down , how subordinates play key roles . (Time magazine, 77:3...)As cholesterol piles_up , it narrows , irritates and damages the artery , encouraging formation of calcium deposits and slowing circulation . (Richard Sanders Allen, "When Fogg Flew the Mail"...)But what came_in was piling_up . |
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[ verb ] arrange into piles or stacks
Examples "She piled up her books in my living room" Used in print (Clifford H. Pope, The Giant Snakes....)The argument against this last approach is comparable_to that which rejects stories about hoop_snakes , about snakes that break themselves into many pieces and join up again , or even of ghosts that chase people out of graveyards ; the mere piling_up of testimony does not prove , to the scientific mind , the existence of hoop_snakes , joint_snakes , or ghosts . Related terms |
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[ verb ] get or gather together
Examples "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" Related terms store accumulate run_up lump scrape fund corral bale catch fund accumulation collection compilation |
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