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heap up

heap up verb: to increase over a period of time; to accumulate.

Verb

heap up (third-person singular simple present heaps up, present participle heaping up, simple past and past participle heaped up)

  1. (intransitive) To increase over a period of time; to accumulate.
    Synonyms:
    mount up, pile up
  2. (transitive) To make an untidy pile of (something).
    • But in reality it was only partially accomplished, because Vukub's two sons, Zipacna and Cabrakan, still remained to be dealt with. Zipacna was daily employed in heaping up mountains, while Cabrakan, his brother, shook them in earthquake.1913, Lewis Spence, chapter V, in The Myths of Mexico and Peru

heap up meaning in Tamil, Malayalam, Kannada and Sanskrit

heap up in Tamil

குமி

heap up in Malayalam

to heap up; to pile up like a hill
കുന്നുകൂടുക kunnukūṭuka
to heap up; to pile up
കുന്നുകൂട്ടുക kunnukūṭṭuka

heap up in Kannada

ಅಡುಕು, ಒಟ್ಟುಮಾಡು

heap up in Sanskrit

to heap up, accumulate, augment, increase
परिचि parici

Synonyms of heap up

Forms of heap up

third-person singular presentheaps up
present participleheaping up
past participleheaped up
pastheaped up

Questions about heap up

What does heap up mean?
Heap up means to increase over a period of time; to accumulate.
What is heap up in Tamil?
Heap up in Tamil is குமி. See Heap up meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is heap up?
Heap up is a verb.
What is the past tense of heap up?
The past tense of heap up is heaped up.

Words near heap up in the dictionary

  1. heap
  2. Heap Bridge
  3. heap coals of fire on someone's head
  4. heap insult on injury
  5. heap on
  6. heap up
  7. heapability
  8. heapable
  9. Heape
  10. heaped
  11. heaped coals of fire on someone's head

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Adapted from Wiktionary: heap up (page history and authors); heap up (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); കുന്നുകൂടുക (Malayalam) (page history and authors); heap up (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); परिचि (Sanskrit) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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