Definitions for piled

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piled piled

Spelling: [pahyld]

IPA: /paɪld/

Piled is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 71 anagrams from letters in piled (deilp).

Definitions for piled

noun

1. an assemblage of things laid or lying one upon the other:
2. Informal. a large number, quantity, or amount of anything:
3. a heap of wood on which a dead body, a living person, or a sacrifice is burned; pyre.
4. a lofty or large building or group of buildings:
5. Informal. a large accumulation of money:
6. a bundle of pieces of iron ready to be welded and drawn out into bars; fagot.
7. reactor (def 4).
8. Electricity. voltaic pile.
9. a cylindrical or flat member of wood, steel, concrete, etc., often tapered or pointed at the lower end, hammered vertically into soil to form part of a foundation or retaining wall.
10. Heraldry. an ordinary in the form of a wedge or triangle coming from one edge of the escutcheon, from the chief unless otherwise specified.
11. Archery. the sharp head or striking end of an arrow, usually of metal and of the form of a wedge or conical nub.

Idioms

1. in pile, Heraldry. (of a number of charges) arranged in the manner of a pile.

adjective

1. having a pile, as velvet and other fabrics.

verb (used with object)

1. to lay or dispose in a pile (often followed by up):
2. to accumulate or store (often followed by up):
3. to cover or load with a pile:
4. to furnish, strengthen, or support with piles.
5. to drive piles into.

verb (used without object)

1. to accumulate, as money, debts, evidence, etc. (usually followed by up).
2. Informal. to move as a group in a more or less confused, disorderly cluster:
3. to gather, accumulate, or rise in a pile or piles (often followed by up):

Origin of piled

1400-50; late Middle English: covered with hair; see pile³, -ed³

Examples for piled

First he looked at her, then he looked at the material she had piled down in front of him.

The bodies had been piled onto dry branches and logs, doused in gasoline, and set afire.

He piled 125 people into the back of his plane and lifted off.

He arranged his own bed in this second room, where the saddles and other accouterments were piled.

On my first visit to Khuzaa I found two ammunition vests around the corner from the bathroom where six bodies were piled.

Three other volumes of the same sort were piled one upon the other.

The room was piled high with boxes containing the priceless tickets for Gatecrasher Balls.

The door was piled with bodies, and the stone floor was slippery with blood.

Tucked away antique shops are piled floor-to-ceiling with dusty relics.

They are made by the ashes that have been dug out by the excavators and piled here.