📦 A large amount 📦 To give a lot 🗑️ A messy pile 🗑️ To pile up 🚗 A bad car

to heap

14 2.4

To put things into a pile

verb
/hip/

: amontonar

The old man stirred, roused himself, and heaped more wood on the dying fire.
heap together

I don't know, one heaped tablespoon of that.

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Examples

Students come to class with everything heaped on them from financial woes to single-parent families to drugs.

Academic text (1995)
But then what happens is we often heap more chaos on top of the chaos.
And in the middle of the room stood Alice's bed, heaped high with clothes and covers.

Fiction book (1995)
A coffee filter is shoved into the metal pan, and someone heaps ground coffee on it.

Fiction book (1994)
Later in the day, both batches were heaped together, topped with yam flowers and the other offerings.

Academic text (1993)
We cruise past countless boutiques and a candy store window heaped with creamy brown pralines.

Fiction book (1995)
After the storm, the workers heaped debris into large piles for removal.
She heaped the garden with colorful flowers just in time for summer.
To prepare for the cold, he heaped blankets on the bed before going to sleep.

Synonyms

to pile

vsto heap

255 1.2

To put things in a heap or stack

focuses on creating a large concentrated mass rather than just crowding

to accumulate

vsto heap

174 3.4

To gather more and more of something over time

means actively grouping items now into a concentrated mass rather than slow gathering

to stack

vsto heap

138 1.6

To put things in a neat pile one on top of another

allows creating a large untidy mass instead of neat layered order

to pile up

vsto heap

83 3.1

To put things on top of each other until they make a heap

emphasizes actively putting items into a single concentrated mass

to stack up

vsto heap

8 3.2

Put things in a neat pile, one on top of another

involves forming a single messy mass rather than neat ordered layers

to heap up

vsto heap

1 2.5

Put things into a pile

describes making one big concentrated mass rather than loose groups

Antonyms

to organize

662 1.6

Arrange people, things, and activities so they work well

to disperse

104 4.4

To cause people and things, like a crowd or fog, to spread over a wide area

Idioms

all of a heap

Informal

8.1

To fall down suddenly into a messy pile

Phrasal Verbs

to heap on

9 3.7

Give someone much more than they can handle

to heap up

1 2.5

Put things into a pile

to heap on praise

4.0

To give a lot of praise, often more than needed

Compounds

heap of

Informal

17 1.8

A large pile of things or a large amount

compost heap

3 2.8

A pile of plant and food waste left to rot to become fertilizer

junk heap

3 4.2

A messy pile of old broken things people throw away

trash heap

3 2.4

A pile of garbage and old things people throw away

garbage heap

1 2.3

A large pile of things that people have thrown away

rubbish heap

1 2.7

A pile of waste and old things

ash-heap

7.8

A pile of ashes left after burning wood or coal

ash heap

4.4

A pile of ashes left after something has been burned

heap of laundry

1.9

A large pile of dirty clothes waiting to be washed

heap of papers

2.8

A large untidy pile of papers on a desk or floor

refuse heap

4.5

A pile of rubbish left outside in one place

trash heap of history

Informal

8.9

Ideas or things people now see as old and useless

How Much

to accumulate

174 3.4

to heap

14 2.4

to pile up

83 3.1

Surface Forms

heap infinitive

heaped past

heaped past participle

heaping present participle

heaps third person singular

Etymology

Heap as a verb means to put things in a pile; think of heaping sand or clothes one on top of another, so to heap is simply to pile up.