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piled

Variant of pile

noun

  1. a mass of things heaped together; heap
  2. a heap of wood or other combustible material on which a corpse or sacrifice is burned
  3. a large building or group of buildings
  4. Informal
    1. a large amount or number
    2. ☆ a lot of money; fortune
  5. Elec. a voltaic pile or any other similar device that produces an electric current; battery
  6. nuclear reactor

transitive verb piled, piling

  1. to put or set in a pile; heap up
  2. to cover with a pile; load
  3. to accumulate
  4. to crash, wreck, etc.

intransitive verb

  1. to form a pile or heap
  2. to move in a mass; crowd: with in, into, out, on, off, etc.
  3. to crash (into)

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2010 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio. Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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