Pile-up Definition

verb

To form a pile, stack, or heap.

The kids piled up their boots and coats by the back door.
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(idiomatic, intransitive) To collect or accumulate, as a backlog.

The requests piled up while she was away.
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noun

​(idiomatic, colloquial) A traffic accident or collision involving multiple vehicles.

Traffic was backed up for miles due to a twelve-car pile-up on the freeway earlier today.
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Other Word Forms of Pile-up

Noun

Singular:
pile-up
Plural:
pile-ups

Pile-up Sentence Examples

  • It must also be remembered that in such a vast sheet of water as is the nyanza the wind exercises an influence on the level, tending to pile up the water at different parts of the lake.

  • Choose the wrong agent and your problems can pile up faster than junk mail in a vacant apartment's letterbox.

  • In England on one occasion in a little town where there were iron and ore mines, they would pile up the slag.

  • It quickly transpires that the pile up has happened next to the discovery of a body by the roadside.

  • These phrases pile up almost to excess, like petals drifting off a cherry tree in spring.

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Words Starting With

PPIPIL

Words Ending With

PUP

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Words Starting With P and Ending With P

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