Word Finder - piled

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(often used with the preposition "up") To lay or throw into a pile or heap; to heap up; to collect into a mass; to accumulate

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They were piling up wood on the wheelbarrow.

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To cover with heaps; or in great abundance; to fill or overfill; to load.

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We piled the camel with our loads.

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To add something to a great number.

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(of vehicles) To create a hold-up.

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To place (guns, muskets, etc.) together in threes so that they can stand upright, supporting each other.

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To drive piles into; to fill with piles; to strengthen with piles.

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To give a pile to; to make shaggy.

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(iron manufacturing) Formed from a pile or fagot.

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piled iron

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Having a pile or point; pointed.

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Having a pile or nap.

They all piled into the SUVs.

The shed was piled high with wood.

He knocked before opening her door and saw her wardrobe empty with clothes piled and stacked on the bed.

The men piled into two Tahoes, and the woman led her to a small Honda.

Everything piled up, I guess.

We piled it in the trunk and backseat.

Rocks had been piled to make a shelter under the cliff across from them.

Struck by an idea, she piled all the beads into the box before unfastening the clasp on Xander's necklace.

They all squeezed into the front seat—the back seat was piled high with photographic equipment and camping gear.

The auction continued in full swing, the outdoor area crowded with bargain seekers, their acquired spoils piled high about them.

All the piled up stress and remorse bubbled up and she was suddenly and thoroughly consumed with seething rage.

A new name was on the mailbox for apartment C. There were no piled up copies of the Parkside Sentinel lying about.

The first eruptions piled up huge domes of lavas rich in soda, including the geburite-dacites and sOlvsbergites of Mount Macedon in Victoria, and the kenyte and tephrite domes of Dunedin, in New Zealand.

A sandy beach or desert owes its character to the mobility of its constituent sand-grains, which are readily drifted and piled up in the form of dunes.

Deidre piled everything on the kitchen counters and pulled out the candle.

Later tombs are piled upon and cut through the old ones.

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.

She halted and quickly piled five small stones in an arrow pointing back the way they'd come, then wiped her muddied hands on her jeans.

There were pictures on her mantle of the two of them together when he was younger, toys piled into a box near her couch, a school lunch menu and more pictures -- these apparently from past Halloweens --on the bulletin board on one wall of the kitchen.

Gerald piled the food on the table and looked up at Alex.

Brady had piled his weapons on the couch and stripped down to a pair of pants and nothing else.

Martha, who couldn't have run that fast from her trailer if she did have a decent pair of sneakers—which she didn't—was at the door, pulling a sled upon which was piled a bundle far smaller than any ten-year-old's belongings ought to represent.

Court starts at nine o'clock, Dean said as he piled silverware on the kitchen counter.

This soil is spongy, and, undergoing alternate contraction and expansion from being alternately comparatively dry and saturated with moisture, allows the heavy blocks to slip down by their own weight into the valley, where they become piled up, the valley stream afterwards removing the soil from among and over them.

I am totally speechless about the level of debt being piled on by people!

The deep stream corrodes and cuts down the high ground; but meanwhile alluvial flats are gradually piled up in the shallows.

Combined harvesters (which enter a field of standing grain and leave this grain piled in sacks ready for shipment), steam gang-ploughs, and other farm machinery are of truly extraordinary size and efficiency.

It is famous in Greek mythology; the giants are said to have piled it on Ossa in order to scale Olympus, the abode of the gods; it was the home of the centaurs, especially of Chiron, who had a cave near its summit, and educated many youthful heroes; the ship "Argo" was built from its pine-woods.

To enlarge the area, or raise the surface-level where that was necessary, layers of logs, brushwood, heather and ferns were piled on the shallow, and consolidated with gravel and stones.

Breeding oysters are piled upon the rookeries, and their young become attached to the stakes and twigs provided for their reception, where they are allowed to remain until ready for use, when they are plucked off and sent to the market.

Irish origin, and although certain of them were com piled on the continent, under the influence of the island missionaries, it seems quite certain that a Roman Penitential has never existed.'

In the deserts that lie east of the Lop-nor the sand is not piled up to such great heights, nor is it generally of such a shifting character.

The mek, promising compliance, invited Ismail and his chief officers to a feast in his house, around which he had piled heaps of straw.

Czerno disappeared as chunks of stone ceiling piled in front of the doorway.

Stones were plainly piled, indicating the incorrect direction they'd just come.

They all squeezed into the front seat—the back seat was piled high with photographic equipment and camping gear.

Martha, who couldn't have run that fast from her trailer if she did have a decent pair of sneakers—which she didn't—was at the door, pulling a sled upon which was piled a bundle far smaller than any ten-year-old's belongings ought to represent.

Over 200 people had piled in, the disco was playing some cool sounds and the buffet looked very appetizing.

Some rooms have furry bedspreads or delicately embroidered covers, while others are piled with oversized mohair cushions.

The French newspapers showed the dolphin carcasses piled up high on the beach.

And, to speak truly, every mule stumbled over the two, and the whole cavalcade was piled up in a heap.

The buildings have been constructed of steel frames and profiled metal sheet cladding, along with piled foundations and suspended laser screed floors.

This piled in either a disused silage clamp, or taken to the field and placed in the windrow.

The bridge piers are both within large sheet piled cofferdams, which were constructed by our own skilled piling resources.

Would you want a professional to work for you whose desk is piled with papers and looks completely disorganized to work on your account?

In its heyday, 30,000 people piled into the arena to watch gladiators fight.

It's not just by accident that students rooms are not piled high with evangelizing material.

Within the space of a book review, to detail all the fictions piled into " Secret World " is utterly impractical.

That leaves the top section on plot 5 where I spread leafmould and have piled turkey litter.

These consisted of ditches with the earth piled up to form a bank into which wooden stakes were driven.