mound

1 a pile or ridge of granular matter (as sand or snow) mounds of snow after the plow had passed Synonyms of mound bar, drift, bankWords 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, pile, mountain, stackWords 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, highland, hill, hump, height, prominence, rise, uplandWords 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; downsNear Antonyms of mound dale, dell, depression, dingle, glen, hollow, vale, valley; basin, bottom, bottomland, fen, flat, floodplain, plain, tidewaterAntonyms of mound lowland

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, stackWords Related to mound bank; layer, pyramid; accumulate, amass, assemble, collect, concentrate, garner, gather, group, mass; bunch, clump, lumpAntonyms of mound unpile