Overview of noun pile_up

The noun pileup has 1 sense

• pileup -- (multiple collisions of vehicles)

Overview of verb pile_up

The verb pile up has 3 senses

• accumulate, cumulate, conglomerate, pile up, gather, amass -- (collect or gather; "Journals are accumulating in my office"; "The work keeps piling up")


• pile up, heap up, stack up -- (arrange into piles or stacks; "She piled up her books in my living room")


• roll up, collect, accumulate, pile up, amass, compile, hoard -- (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")