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⛰️ To pile up ⛰️ Piled up
to mounded

to mounded

1 4.2
To make a small rounded pile
  • verb
  • /ˈmaʊndɪd/
: apilado
  • The gardener mounded the earth around the base of the rose bushes for winter protection.

Examples

  • Snow was mounded along the sides of the road after the plows passed.

  • After the harvest, workers mounded the potatoes in the storage shed.

  • The sand was mounded high on the beach.

  • They mounded the soil around the base of the tree.

  • The gardener mounded the earth around the base of the rose bushes for winter protection.

  • After the harvest, workers mounded the potatoes in the storage shed.

  • Snow was mounded along the sides of the road after the plows passed.

Synonyms

raised
vsto mounded
57 1.0

Higher than the surrounding surface or area

focuses on being piled into a heap rather than simply lifted or moved
mounded over
vsto mounded
7.0

A place or object that has a small hill of earth over it

is formed into a piled-up mass rather than merely covered

Antonyms

flat
414 1.0

Level and even without parts higher or lower

level
47 1.0

Having a flat surface

Compounds

mounded over
7.0

A place or object that has a small hill of earth over it

How Raised

raised
57 1.0
to mounded
1 4.2
flat
414 1.0

Surface Forms

mound infinitive
mounded past
mounded past participle
mounding present participle
mounds third person singular

Morphology

mounded = mound (transparent) = mound + ed

Regular past-tense/past-participle formation of the verb 'mound' with -ed; meaning is directly the verb's past/action.

Etymology

The word mounded comes from the verb mound, which means 'to pile into a small hill', and you can remember it like mount in mountain, both meaning to rise up. So to mound something is to pile it into a raised heap, and mounded means it has been made into that little hill.