pile

verb

Synonyms and Antonyms of PILE

to lay or throw on top of one another <piled all the clothes on the chair before putting them away>

Synonyms heap, mound, stack

Related Words bank; layer, pyramid; accumulate, amass, assemble, collect, concentrate, garner, gather, group, mass; bunch, clump, lump

Antonyms unpile

to gather into a closely packed group <the kids piled into the car>

Synonyms bunch, cluster, crowd, huddle, pile

Related Words assemble, collect, concenter, concentrate, conglomerate, congregate, convene, converge, flock, forgather (or foregather), herd, swarm, throng; encircle, mob, surround; embrace, hug

Near Antonyms break up, disband, disperse, split (up)

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