to mound
3
3.8
- verb
- /maʊnd/
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- The chef demonstrated how to create a beautiful dish by mounding the rice in the center of the plate.
Examples
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When the kids from the cinema came in to eat, he'd double or triple their order, mounding up the French fries and stacking extra bacon on the bacon cheeseburgers.
Fiction book (1999) -
Her feet trot down the roadway where it was plowed, stumbling here and there where the wind has mounded drifts.
Fiction book (1993) -
If you haven't done that though, what you can do is mound soil around the leak.
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And then what I do is I mound up a little bit around the stem and then I take my hand and I just make a trench.
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The removed clay was then mounded into berms to block the site from the view of the neighbors.
Academic text (1995) -
Turn the fruit mixture, including the juices, into the chilled pie shell and mound the apples slightly in the center.
Blog text (3) -
Spoon the mixture into the bowl, mounding it slightly to create an appealing shape.
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As she worked in the garden, she mounded the soil around the base of each plant to retain moisture.
Synonyms
83
3.1
To put things on top of each other until they make a heap
14
2.4
To put things into a pile
1
7.9
To heap soil around a plant to protect or support it
To cover something with a pile of earth to bury and protect it
Antonyms
Phrasal Verbs
Compounds
3
3.0
A raised spot on a baseball field where the player who throws the ball stands to throw to the batter
1
9.9
Ancient Native American people who built large earth mounds for burials and ceremonies in North America
- Australian
1
9.9
A bird that builds a large pile of leaves and rotting plants to keep its eggs warm
A place with large old earthen mounds built by ancient Native American people in Ohio, United States
- Australian
A bird with large feet that builds piles of dead plants to keep its eggs warm
- Australian
A large bird with big feet that builds mounds of dead plants to keep its eggs warm
How Much
Surface Forms
Etymology
To mound something is to make it into a pile or small hill; a helpful image is heaping food or earth into a little 'mount', which explains why to mound is to pile up into a rounded mass.