1
as in pouring
to give readily and in large quantities
the critics heaped scorn on the wannabe blockbuster and its implausible plot
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2
as in piling
to lay or throw on top of one another
heaped the stones in a corner of the yard
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3
as in filling
to put into (something) as much as can be held or contained
heaped her plate with spaghetti
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Recent Examples of heaping
Only a heaping tablespoon—or two, or three, depending on your batch size and preference—makes all the difference, adding both flavor and creaminess.
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Kaitlyn Yarborough, Southern Living, 26 Sep. 2025
Fried chicken, biscuits, cinnamon apples, corn pudding, and country ham all arrive in heaping bowls meant to be passed around.
—Rai Mincey, Forbes.com, 8 Sep. 2025
Kaitlyn Yarborough, Southern Living, 26 Sep. 2025
Fried chicken, biscuits, cinnamon apples, corn pudding, and country ham all arrive in heaping bowls meant to be passed around.
—Rai Mincey, Forbes.com, 8 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for heaping
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Hateful messages, including threats and calls for Rehberg to be fired, were pouring in.—
Mary Spicuzza,
jsonline.com,
25 Sep. 2025
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Now, it’s been open about a month, customers are flowing in at a steady clip and rave reviews are pouring back out.—
Heidi Finley,
Charlotte Observer,
24 Sep. 2025
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He was headed home with his girlfriend to attend his sister's wedding, but the emails and headlines were piling up fast, urging visa holders like them to return to the United States within 24 hours – or risk new restrictions and a $100,000 fee.—
Dian Zhang,
USA Today,
24 Sep. 2025
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Plants were piling up sodium sulfate while importing caustic soda and other reagents by the tanker.—
Kapil Kajal,
Interesting Engineering,
23 Sep. 2025
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So Instacart is reviewing orders from last October to see what might be filling trick-or-treaters’ bags across the country this year.—
Robert Abitbol,
USA Today,
27 Sep. 2025
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Folding whipped topping gently into the pudding mixture keeps the filling fluffy and mousse-like.—
Kimberly Holland,
Southern Living,
27 Sep. 2025
Verb
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Gilbert, newly flush with seemingly unlimited cash, and filled with both a desire to be useful and the existential unease of someone who has just won the lottery, begins covering her friends’ therapy bills and tuition payments, and lavishing jewelry, weddings, and houses (plural) on them.—
Jia Tolentino,
New Yorker,
25 Aug. 2025
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Adamolekun is also spearheading the company’s $60 million plan to keep the seafood chain afloat by stacking his C-suite with restaurant-industry veterans.—
Sydney Lake,
Fortune,
1 Oct. 2025
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Repeat with remaining dough pieces, stacking balls gently in pan.—
Katlyn Moncada,
Better Homes & Gardens,
30 Sep. 2025
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Making the swap can save you from packing three extra shoes in your bag, reducing your luggage weight considerably.—
Kelsey Glennon,
Travel + Leisure,
29 Sep. 2025
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In a moment when rock biopics, some better than others, are making bank and packing multiplexes, Anderson offers another, much deeper way of using music on the big screen.—
Simon Vozick-Levinson,
Rolling Stone,
29 Sep. 2025
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First steps in that process occurred last week, when the Chokai practiced loading dummy Tomahawk munitions into its vertical launch cells.—
Brad Lendon,
CNN Money,
1 Oct. 2025
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In two of them — July 17, 2005, and July 5, 2008 — the Red Sox actually scored a run before loading the bases … and before Mariano Rivera then escaped all that trouble.—
Jayson Stark,
New York Times,
1 Oct. 2025
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“Heaping.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/heaping. Accessed 2 Oct. 2025.
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