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hilled

verb

past tense of hill
as in piled
to form into a pile or ridge of earth hilled peat moss around the rosebushes to protect them from the freeze

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for hilled
  1. piled
  2. mounded
  3. stacked
  4. banked
Verb
  • As some astute readers have pointed out, Gen has piled up a lot of dirty laundry this season.
    — Rafaela Bassili, Vulture, 22 Sep. 2026
  • Businesses saw few investment opportunities, and many big tech firms such as Alphabet’s Google and Meta’s Facebook piled up cash.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 20 Sep. 2026
Definition of piled
Verb
  • The uniform mounded shape and purple hues of the flower spikes, along with the contrasting silvery foliage, add attractive structure and framing along the edges of paved walkways.
    — Gemma Johnstone, The Spruce, 22 June 2026
  • Kent mounded up soil the couple bought from GreatSoil to create some elevation.
    — Caron Golden, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 May 2026
Definition of mounded
Verb
  • Raw chicken juice cross-contaminated onto raw squid when an employee stacked a container of raw chicken on top of the squid container.
    — Sacbee.com, Sacbee.com, 18 Sep. 2026
  • In total, there were eight housing tents, with rows of cages each holding 32 men stacked in bunk beds around a row of three toilets.
    — Miami Herald, Miami Herald, 17 Sep. 2026
Definition of stacked
Verb
  • Shortly after leaving Boston, American Airlines Flight 11 to Los Angeles banked south near Albany and raced down the Hudson River Valley.
    — Christopher Keating, Hartford Courant, 6 Sep. 2026
  • The temperature was in the teens, and the streets were banked with ice.
    — Emily Witt, New Yorker, 31 Aug. 2026
Definition of banked
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