| Roget’s II: The New Thesaurus, Third Edition. 1995. |
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| NOUN: | 1. A usually permanent construction, such as a house or store: building, edifice, structure. See MAKE. 2. Slang. A large sum of money: fortune, mint. Informal : bundle, pretty penny, tidy sum, wad. See RICH. 3. A group of things gathered haphazardly: agglomeration, bank1, cumulus, drift, heap, hill, mass, mess, mound, mountain, shock2, stack, tumble. See ORDER. 4. Informal. A great deal: abundance, mass, mountain, much, plenty, profusion, wealth, world. Informal : barrel, heap, lot, pack, peck2. Regional : power, sight. See BIG. | | VERB: | 1. To make or become full; put as much into as can be held: charge, fill, freight, heap, load, pack. See FULL. 2. To leave one's bed: arise, get up, rise, roll out. Informal : turn out. Idioms: rise and shine. See RISE. 3. To fill to overflowing: heap, lade, load. See FULL. 4. To put into a disordered pile. Also used with up: bank1, drift, heap, hill, lump1, mound, stack. See ORDER. | | PHRASAL VERB: | pile up To bring together so as to increase in mass or number: accrue, accumulate, agglomerate, aggregate, amass, collect1, cumulate, garner, gather, hive, roll up. See COLLECT. pile up Informal. To undergo wrecking: crash, smash. Informal : crack up. See HELP.
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