PILE UP

• (verb) collect or gather

  "Journals are accumulating in my office", "The work keeps piling up"

  synonyms : accumulate , amass , conglomerate , cumulate , gather

• (verb) arrange into piles or stacks

  "She piled up her books in my living room"

  synonyms : heap up , stack up

• (verb) 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"

  synonyms : accumulate , amass , collect , compile , hoard , roll up

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