Word Finder - heaped

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To pile in a heap.

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He heaped the laundry upon the bed and began folding.

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To form or round into a heap, as in measuring.

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To supply in great quantity.

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They heaped praise upon their newest hero.

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In a heap.

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the heaped dishes waiting to be washed up

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Containing a heap.

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a heaped teaspoon of sugar

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• heaping

He accepted the platter of food and heaped his plate.

The flattery heaped upon Ptolemy is somewhat nauseous.

It's none of my business, but they can't all be heaped into a pile, you know.

Sipunculoids are dioecious, and the ova and spermatozoa are formed from the modified cells lining the body-cavity, which are heaped up into a low ridge running along the line of origin of the retractor muscles.

Nothing loth, he established a revolutionary tribunal, and formed a body of desperate men, called the Legion of Marat, for the purpose of destroying in the swiftest way the masses of prisoners heaped in the jails.

Deidre was seated for a minute before a red-faced nun brought out a tray with a plate heaped with food and a coffee pot with creamer, sugars and mug.

Meanwhile sieve together 9oz icing sugar and 3 heaped tbsp cocoa.

Remove a couple of heaped dessertspoons of this crumble mix and set to one side.

Level teaspoon of dried mixed herbs or a heaped tablespoon of fresh chopped mixed herbs.

The four great ridges of earthworks surrounding the hilltop were found to have been heaped up over many periods from prehistoric times.

Day 7 Breakfast Small glass of fruit juice 2 heaped tbs sugar-free muesli topped with a pot of low fat yogurt.

Hurrah for Don Paterson, who has heaped much-deserved opprobrium on the head of Harold Pinter.

Everyone I have spoken to since has heaped praise upon you.

The latter path was championed by the nationalistic Slavophiles, who heaped scorn on the " decadent " West.

Inside the cage were their feathers heaped like a black slag of tar.

Now beat in the golden syrup, then a heaped tablespoonful of the flour mixture followed by the egg.

You should get a good heaped teaspoon of ginger puree.

Then grease two baking trays and drop heaped teaspoonfuls onto them, leaving a little space for expansion.

Over his shoulder are heaped the folds of a net, and he carries a trident.

Many of his former colleagues in the Tory Party and the Tory press have heaped vitriol on him.

Whatever opinion may be held as to the orthodoxy of the seven articles of the Anabaptists, the vehemence with which they were opposed, and the epithets of abuse which were heaped upon the unfortunate sect that maintained them, cannot fail to astonish those used to toleration.

A nearby steeple had been broken off short and the fragments lay heaped beside it.

The strangers took their seats at the table willingly enough, for they were all hungry and the platters were now heaped with good things to eat.

Then the servants heaped a lot of rugs upon the floor and the old horse slept on the softest bed he had ever known in his life.

High mounds, pyramids heaped in fantastic shapes, and impenetrable drifts lay scattered in every direction.

There certainly is ridicule heaped on the UFO subject.

Keep in mind that cakes for Halloween don't have to be elaborately decorated or heaped with colorful frosting.

Few of Star Trek's characters had as many indignities heaped on them as the unfortunate Mr. Spock.

The second woman with the flushed face returned with a plate heaped with half a cooked chicken smelling of garlic and spices, rice, and fried plantains.

It is easy to distinguish the great primitive watercourses from the lateral ducts which they fed, the latter being almost without banks and merely traceable by the winding curves of the layers of alluvium in the bed, while the former are hedged in by high banks of mud, heaped up during centuries of dredging.

This outlet having been closed by small stones and sulphate of lime cement, the pit is filled with sulphur ore, which is heaped up considerably beyond the edge of the pit and covered with a layer of burnt-out ore.

The Empire heaped favours upon him, but in 1814 he abandoned Napoleon, and voted for his deposition.

Small objects are often heaped together in perforated trays or ladles, the cathode connecting-rod being buried in the midst of them.

On the elevation of Anne to the Russian throne in 1740, Biren, who had in the meantime married a Fraulein von Treiden, came to Moscow, and honours and riches were heaped upon him.

In another a flock of vultures is feeding on the bodies of the fallen enemy; in a third a tumulus is being heaped up over those who had been slain on the side of Lagash.

It has been found in practice advantageous to prepare the canes for crushing in the mills, as above described, by passing them through a pair of preparing rolls which are grooved or indented in such manner as to draw in and flatten down the canes, no matter in which way they are thrown or heaped upon the canecarrier, and thus prepare them for feeding the first mill of the series; thus the work of crushing is carried on uninterruptedly and without constant stoppages from the mills choking, as is often the case when the feed is heavy and the canes are not prepared.

From the drying floor on which the spent char is heaped up it falls by gravitation into the retorts.

Again, the construction of electric furnaces may often be exceedingly crude and simple; in the carborundum furnace, for example, the outer walls are of loosely piled bricks, and in one type of furnace the charge is simply heaped on the ground around the carbon resistance used for heating, without containing-walls of any kind.

He was hailed as the deliverer and father of his country, and all manner of distinctions and congratulations were heaped upon him.

The ground around the "viscachera" is cleared from vegetation, the refuse of which is heaped upon the mound.

The diet of 1661 publicly thanked him for his services; the king heaped honours and riches upon him, and in 1665 he was appointed acting commander-in-chief of Poland, but died a few days after receiving this supreme distinction.

Domitian had been arbitrary and high-handed, and had heaped favours on the soldiery while humiliating the senate; Nerva showed himself anxious to respect the traditional privileges of the senate, and such maxims of constitutional government as still survived.

From this criginal task arose a second, that of affording shelter to the fragments of peoples heaped together in inextricable confusion in this corner of the earth.

This, the Chimen valley, contains in places a good deal of drift-sand, which however is stationary in the mass and heaped up along the northern foot of the Chimen-tagh.

The reproaches of party assailed him in his lifetime, and have continued to be heaped upon his memory.

But the other charges, far less plausible than that of embezzlement, which were heaped upon the head of the fallen favourite, are evidence of an intention to crush him at all costs.

Coxcoxtli used the help of the Aztecs against the Xochimilco people; but his own nation, horrified at their bloodthirsty sacrifice of prisoners, drove them out to the islands and swamps of the great salt lagoon, where they are said to have taken to making their chinampas or floating gardens of mud heaped on rafts of reeds and brush, which in later times were so remarkable a feature of Mexico.

The skin consists of a transparent cuticle excreted by the underlying ectoderm, the cells of which though usually one-layered may be heaped up into several layers in the head; beneath this is a basement membrane, and then a layer of longitudinal muscle fibres which are limited inside by a layer of peritoneal cells.

For what reason this volume may differ from case to case lies close at hand; in connexion with the notion of negative and positive atoms, like chlorine and hydrogen, experience tends to show that the former, as well as the latter, have a mutual repulsive power, but the former acts on the latter in the opposite sense; the necessary consequence is that, when those negative and positive groups are distributed in the molecule, its volume will be smaller than if the negative elements are heaped together.

He now attacked more in detail but not more happily than before Wallis's great work, while hardly attempting any further defence of his own positions; also he repelled with some force and dignity the insults that had been heaped upon him, and fought the verbal points, but could not leave the field without making political insinuations against his adversary, quite irrelevant in themselves and only noteworthy as evidence of his own resignation to Cromwell's rule.