STACK UP Synonyms: 19 Similar and Opposite Words

stack (up)

verb

Definition of stack (up)

as in to accumulate

to gradually form into a layer, pile, or mass those newspapers have been stacking up in the basement since we moved here

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The system is a maze in which laws collide with gray areas, where layers upon layers of policy have accumulated over decades in a pile waiting for reform that has never come.

— Andrew Carter, Chicago Tribune, 20 Sep. 2026
This wasn’t an isolated incident; other concrete gifts that Wilson has accumulated this year now decorate the backyard in Ridgewood, Queens.

— Alex Jhamb Burns, Vogue, 19 Sep. 2026

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Hours after the tragedy occurred, dozens of community members and teenagers gathered in Manhattan’s East Village at the intersection of East 14th Street and First Avenue to pay tribute to Serkov.

— Desiree Anello, PEOPLE, 21 Sep. 2026
About 60 present and past members of the Aurora Lamplighter Chorus and Elgin’s Fox Valley Harmonizers gathered in August to celebrate each group’s 80th anniversary.

— Tom Strong, Chicago Tribune, 20 Sep. 2026

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