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mound

noun

Synonyms and Antonyms of mound

1 a pile or ridge of granular matter (as sand or snow)

mounds of snow after the plow had passed

Synonyms of mound

bank, bar, drift

Words Related to mound

snowbank, snowdrift

embankment, sandbar

heap, hill, mass, mountain, stack, tuft

2 a quantity of things thrown or stacked on one another

an ever-growing mound of dirty laundry on the floor

Synonyms of mound

cock, heap, hill, mountain, pile, stack

Words Related to mound

bank, bar, drift, embankment

bed, layer

mow, pyramid, rick

barrow, cairn, pyre

accumulation, aggregate, array, assemblage, collection, conglomeration, gathering, grouping, hoard, huddle, jumble, knot, pileup

3 an area of high ground

a pitcher's mound

Synonyms of mound

altitude(s), elevation, eminence, height, highland, hill, hump, prominence, rise, upland

Words Related to mound

alp, mount, mountain, peak

butte, mesa, plateau, table, tableland

bluff, cliff, crag, precipice, steep, tor

ridge, sierra

dome, sugarloaf

foothill, hillock, hummock, knob, knoll

downs

Near Antonyms of mound

dale, dell, depression, dingle, glen, hollow, vale, valley

basin, bottom, bottomland, fen, flat, floodplain, plain, tidewater

Antonyms of mound

lowland

mound

verb

Synonyms and Antonyms of mound

1 to form into a pile or ridge of earth

mound the mulch around the plants

Synonyms of mound

bank, hill

Words Related to mound

heap, pile, pyramid, stack

embank

bunch, bundle, clump, lump, mass, wad

accumulate, amass, assemble, collect, conglomerate, gather, group

2 to lay or throw on top of one another

mounding slices of cheese on top of her sandwich meat

Synonyms of mound

heap, pile, stack

Words Related to mound

bank

layer, pyramid

accumulate, amass, assemble, collect, concentrate, garner, gather, group, mass

bunch, clump, lump

Antonyms of mound

unpile

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