if something piles up, or if someone piles it up, the amount of it increases a lot
same as pile
'Avril Reynolds, well-known on the Birmingham club circuit, was one of three killed in a pile-up in fog on the Mó.
A pile-up of cloud was vanquishing the last of the daylight: it seemed as if they had brought the gloom of the cottage with them.
All the time the bills were piling up.
Boys, I want you to pile up some chairs on that side of the aisle and on the other side.
It's going to take you a lot of rounds to pile up those points.
Newspapers and magazines were piled up on the floor.
Teach them to pile up breastworks with anything they've got, including their hands.
The previous November the entire Hotchkiss family had been involved in a freeway pile-up.
These policies could be piling up financial trouble for future governments.
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There is no origin for this phrasal verb
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