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  • 61pile on — phrasal verb Word forms pile on : present tense I/you/we/they pile on he/she/it piles on present participle piling on past tense piled on past participle piled on 1) [intransitive] to increase something by a large amount, or to do it a lot a team …

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  • 62pile*/ — [paɪl] noun I 1) [C] a number of things that are put on top of each other in an untidy way Rubbish lay in piles in the street.[/ex] a pile of books and papers[/ex] 2) [C] informal a large amount of something By the time he was 40, he d made piles …

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  • 63Pile — This unusual name is of Anglo Saxon origin, and is a topographical surname given in the first instances to someone who lived near a stake or post which had been placed to serve as a landmark or boundary marker. The derivation is from the Olde… …

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  • 64pile up — 1) PHR V ERG If you pile up a quantity of things or if they pile up, they gradually form a pile. [V P n (not pron)] Bulldozers piled up huge mounds of dirt... [V P] Mail was still piling up at the office. [Also] 2) PHR V ERG If you pile up work,… …

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  • 65pile — n.f. Défaite au combat : Prendre la pile. □ adv. Net, juste : S arrêter pile. Au bon moment : Tomber pile. / Pile poil, juste, exactement, pile et au poil …

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  • 66pile — I 1. noun 1) a pile of stones Syn: heap, stack, mound, pyramid, mass, quantity; collection, accumulation, assemblage, store, stockpile, hoard 2) informal I ve got a pile of work to do Syn …

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  • 67pile —   Ahu, pu u, kūāhua.   Also: āhua, kuapapa, anu a, kūpa i, ili ili, paila; hu a (as of mats, tapa); mahena.    ♦ To pile up, ho āhu, kuapapa, hō ili ili, kūkulu papa, ho onoho papa, miho, ho opu u.    ♦ Pile of paper, pu u pepa.    ♦ Garbage pile …

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  • 68pile up — verb 1. collect or gather (Freq. 4) Journals are accumulating in my office The work keeps piling up • Syn: ↑accumulate, ↑cumulate, ↑conglomerate, ↑gather, ↑amass …

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  • 69pile-up — noun ADJECTIVE ▪ multi car (AmE), multiple (BrE) ▪ a multiple/multi car pile up involving five cars ▪ massive ▪ eight vehicle, five car …

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  • 70pile — pi·le s.m.inv. ES ingl. {{wmetafile0}} tessuto sintetico, termicamente isolante, morbido e leggermente peloso, utilizzato per confezionare spec. indumenti sportivi o da montagna: una tuta in pile, guanti di pile | indumento realizzato con tale… …

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