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  • 11gather — vb 1 Gather, collect, assemble, congregate mean to come or to bring together so as to form a group, a mass, or a unit. The same distinctions in applications and in implications characterize their derivative nouns gathering, collection, assemblage …

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  • 12pile up — {v. phr.} 1. To grow into a big heap. * /He didn t go into his office for three days and his work kept piling up./ 2. To run aground. * /Boats often pile up on the rocks in the shallow water./ 3. To crash. * /One car made a sudden stop and the… …

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  • 13pile up — {v. phr.} 1. To grow into a big heap. * /He didn t go into his office for three days and his work kept piling up./ 2. To run aground. * /Boats often pile up on the rocks in the shallow water./ 3. To crash. * /One car made a sudden stop and the… …

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  • 14pile — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. structure, building, edifice; nap; heap, mass, pyre; quantity. See assemblage. v. t. accumulate, load, amass, furnish. See greatness, covering, texture. II (Roget s IV) n. 1. [A heap] Syn. collection …

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  • 15pile up — verb 1. collect or gather (Freq. 4) Journals are accumulating in my office The work keeps piling up • Syn: ↑accumulate, ↑cumulate, ↑conglomerate, ↑gather, ↑amass …

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  • 16gather — Synonyms and related words: accouple, accumulate, affiliate, agglomerate, agglutinate, aggregate, aggroup, ally, amass, approach, articulate, assemble, associate, assume, await, band, batch, be afraid, be imminent, be in store, believe, blast,… …

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  • 17pile — I UK [paɪl] / US noun Word forms pile : singular pile plural piles ** 1) a) [countable] a number of things put on top of each other She sorted her clothes into tidy piles. pile of: a pile of books and papers b) a lot of things that have been put… …

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  • 18heap up — verb arrange into piles or stacks She piled up her books in my living room • Syn: ↑pile up, ↑stack up • Hypernyms: ↑gather, ↑garner, ↑collect, ↑pull together …

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  • 19amass — v. a. Accumulate, gather, aggregate, pile up, heap up, scrape together, collect together, rake up, gather into a heap or pile …

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  • 20accumulate — ac•cu•mu•late [[t]əˈkyu myəˌleɪt[/t]] v. lat•ed, lat•ing 1) to gather or collect, often in gradual degrees; heap up; amass: to accumulate wealth[/ex] 2) to gather into a heap or mass • Etymology: 1520–30; < L accumulātus, ptp. of accumulāre=ac …

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