piling

UK /ˈpaɪlɪŋ/ US [ˈpʰaɪ̯ɫlɪŋ]

noun 3

Collocations

ADJ.

miscellaneous, missing, rubbish, unpaid, worried

VERB + PILING

blocks, built, dishes, documents, keep, keeps, making, share

PILING + NOUN

banquet, couches, dirt, i'm, weeks

PREP.

between, in, into, on, up

ADV.

really

noun

A structural support comprising a length of wood, steel, or other construction material.

The act of heaping up.

The process of building up, heating, and working fagots or piles to form bars, etc.

noun — a column of wood or steel or concrete that is driven into th

His debts were piling up.

Tatoeba · #299080

And so the method that works is treading down the snow to harden it, making blocks and piling them up.

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The bills keep piling up.

Tatoeba · #534646

No matter how much I rush it, miscellaneous work keeps piling up and I can't catch up with it.

Tatoeba · #542520

The dishes are piling up in the sink.

Tatoeba · #1005960

You say that your savings are piling up and you have no way of spending them? That's really an extravagant kind of worry to have.

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