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What does pile up mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word pile up? Here's what it means.

Verb
  1. (transitive) To form a pile, stack, or heap.
  2. (idiomatic, intransitive) To collect or accumulate, as a backlog.
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Though the central action rings true, the surrounding ironies may pile up too heavily.
Various studies say that cities will have dogs so long as they continue to pile up mounds of garbage.
When you have so many bureaucrats and human beings corrupted by money, the problems pile up.
Problems pile up but important Ministers are content to keep their date with rhetoric.
Post exam week tension is beginning to go away, but not the muscular pain from footy, and work is starting to pile up again.
For such a scenario, the centrifugal forces would cause its water veneer to gravitate away from the poles and pile up at the equator.

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