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Synonyms & Antonyms of pile
(Entry 1 of 3)
1
a quantity of things thrown or stacked on one another
- a large pile of newspapers that needed to be disposed of
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- bank,
- bar,
- drift,
- embankment
2
a considerable amount
- a job that paid piles of money
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- abundance,
- barrel,
- basketful,
- boatload,
- bucket,
- bunch,
- bundle,
- bushel,
- carload,
- chunk,
- deal,
- dozen,
- fistful,
- gobs,
- good deal,
- heap,
- hundred,
- lashings
- (also lashins)
- [chiefly British],
- loads,
- lot,
- mass,
- mess,
- mountain,
- much,
- multiplicity,
- myriad,
- oodles,
- pack,
- passel,
- peck,
- plateful,
- plenitude,
- plentitude,
- plenty,
- pot,
- potful,
- profusion,
- quantity,
- raft,
- reams,
- scads,
- sheaf,
- shipload,
- sight,
- slew,
- spate,
- stack,
- store,
- ton,
- truckload,
- volume,
- wad,
- wealth,
- yard
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3
a very large amount of money
- she made a pile in the stock market just before it headed south
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verbSynonyms & Antonyms of pile (Entry 3 of 3)
1
to lay or throw on top of one another
- piled all the clothes on the chair before putting them away
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- unpile
2
to gather into a closely packed group
- the kids piled into the car
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- assemble,
- collect,
- concenter,
- concentrate,
- conglomerate,
- congregate,
- convene,
- converge,
- flock,
- forgather
- (or foregather),
- herd,
- swarm,
- throng
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The first known use of pile was in the 12th century
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