pile in


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Related to pile in: pile up, piled
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pile

noun
1. A group of things gathered haphazardly:
agglomeration, bank, cumulus, drift, heap, hill, mass, mess, mound, mountain, shock, stack, tumble.
2. Informal. A great deal:
abundance, mass, mountain, much, plenty, profusion, wealth, world.
Informal: barrel, heap, lot, pack, peck.
Regional: power, sight.
3. Slang. A large sum of money:
fortune, mint.
Informal: bundle, pretty penny, tidy sum, wad.
4. A usually permanent construction, such as a house or store:
building, edifice, structure.
verb
1. To put into a disordered pile.Also used with up:
bank, drift, heap, hill, lump, mound, stack.
2. To make or become full; put as much into as can be held:
charge, fill, freight, heap, load, pack.
3. To fill to overflowing:
heap, lade, load.
4. To leave one's bed:
arise, get up, rise, roll out.
Informal: turn out.
Idiom: rise and shine.
phrasal verb
pile up
1. To bring together so as to increase in mass or number:
accrue, accumulate, agglomerate, aggregate, amass, collect, cumulate, garner, gather, hive, roll up.
2. Informal. To undergo wrecking:
crash, smash.
Informal: crack up.
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Translations

w>pile in

vi (inf) (→ in +acc) → hineindrängen; (= get in) → einsteigen; pile in! → immer herein!
vt sep → einladen (→ -to in +acc)
Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007
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