Antonyms for pile
paɪlpile

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1. pile

   Antonyms:
   demolish, dissipate, squander, scatter, separate, disperse, deal, distribute

   Synonyms:
   heap, accumulate, gather, store, stuck, amass, collect

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1. • Arrange
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1. pile, heap, mound, agglomerate, cumulation, cumulusnoun

   a collection of objects laid on top of each other

   Synonyms:
   tidy sum, mound, peck, mint, nap, plenty, lot, spile, pitcher's mound, batch, raft, cumulus cloud, quite a little, passel, atomic reactor, hill, spate, muckle, big money, mass, bundle, good deal, stack, mountain, galvanic pile, jalopy, atomic pile, deal, piling, stilt, hammock, big bucks, hummock, chain reactor, megabucks, wad, flock, hatful, mickle, slew, heap, down, great deal, mess, sight, voltaic pile, cumulus, hillock, knoll, bus, cumulation, pitcher, pot, agglomerate

2. batch, deal, flock, good deal, great deal, hatful, heap, lot, mass, mess, mickle, mint, mountain, muckle, passel, peck, pile, plenty, pot, quite a little, raft, sight, slew, spate, stack, tidy sum, wadnoun

   (often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent

   "a batch of letters"; "a deal of trouble"; "a lot of money"; "he made a mint on the stock market"; "see the rest of the winners in our huge passel of photos"; "it must have cost plenty"; "a slew of journalists"; "a wad of money"

   Synonyms:
   push-down list, flock, destiny, bulk, cud, chaw, multitude, upsurge, atomic reactor, quid, deal, spile, smokestack, caboodle, crapper, commode, throne, troop, fold, bay window, stool, softwood, chew, gage, push-down store, push-down storage, weed, hand, heap, surge, kitty, jalopy, smoke, muddle, band, lot, passel, slew, vision, freshet, potbelly, mussiness, jam, muss, hole, flowerpot, mint candy, visual modality, quite a little, clutch, luck, plentifulness, toilet, masses, ken, mess hall, down, atomic pile, messiness, the great unwashed, peck, tummy, agglomerate, sight, volume, wad, plug, mount, potty, set, nap, portion, skunk, push-down stack, chain reactor, rush, mound, good deal, big money, galvanic pile, pickle, sens, bundle, fate, voltaic pile, draw, stilt, green goddess, people, visual sense, sess, batch, view, pot, stack, mess, bunch, spate, plenteousness, locoweed, piling, bus, bargain, mountain, survey, business deal, plenty, potentiometer, mint, dope, plentitude, cumulus, plenitude, raft, jackpot, mickle, can, big bucks, kettle of fish, mass, tidy sum, corporation, circumstances, hatful, potful, megabucks, circle, grass, great deal, trade, cumulation, fix, muckle, fortune, hoi polloi

3. pile, bundle, big bucks, megabucks, big moneynoun

   a large sum of money (especially as pay or profit)

   "she made a bundle selling real estate"; "they sank megabucks into their new house"

   Synonyms:
   tidy sum, mound, peck, mint, nap, plenty, lot, spile, batch, raft, quite a little, passel, atomic reactor, spate, muckle, big money, package, mass, bundle, good deal, stack, mountain, galvanic pile, atomic pile, deal, piling, stilt, big bucks, chain reactor, megabucks, wad, flock, hatful, mickle, slew, heap, down, great deal, mess, parcel, sight, voltaic pile, cumulus, packet, cumulation, sheaf, pot, agglomerate

4. down, pilenoun

   fine soft dense hair (as the fine short hair of cattle or deer or the wool of sheep or the undercoat of certain dogs)

   Synonyms:
   tidy sum, mound, peck, mint, nap, plenty, lot, spile, batch, raft, quite a little, passel, atomic reactor, spate, muckle, big money, chain reactor, bundle, good deal, stack, mountain, sight, atomic pile, deal, piling, stilt, big bucks, voltaic pile, galvanic pile, megabucks, wad, flock, hatful, mickle, slew, heap, down, great deal, mess, mass, down feather, cumulus, cumulation, pot, agglomerate

5. voltaic pile, pile, galvanic pilenoun

   battery consisting of voltaic cells arranged in series; the earliest electric battery devised by Volta

   Synonyms:
   tidy sum, mound, peck, mint, nap, plenty, lot, spile, batch, raft, quite a little, passel, atomic reactor, spate, muckle, big money, chain reactor, bundle, good deal, stack, mountain, sight, atomic pile, deal, piling, stilt, big bucks, galvanic pile, megabucks, wad, flock, hatful, mickle, slew, heap, down, great deal, mess, mass, voltaic pile, cumulus, cumulation, pot, agglomerate

6. pile, spile, piling, stiltnoun

   a column of wood or steel or concrete that is driven into the ground to provide support for a structure

   Synonyms:
   tidy sum, mound, peck, mint, nap, plenty, lot, spile, batch, raft, long-legs, quite a little, passel, atomic reactor, spate, muckle, big money, stiltbird, mass, bundle, good deal, stack, mountain, galvanic pile, atomic pile, deal, piling, stilt, big bucks, longlegs, chain reactor, bung, megabucks, wad, flock, hatful, mickle, slew, heap, down, great deal, mess, stilt plover, sight, voltaic pile, cumulus, cumulation, pot, agglomerate

7. pile, napnoun

   the yarn (as in a rug or velvet or corduroy) that stands up from the weave

   "for uniform color and texture tailors cut velvet with the pile running the same direction"

   Synonyms:
   tidy sum, mound, peck, mint, nap, plenty, lot, spile, batch, raft, quite a little, passel, atomic reactor, short sleep, spate, muckle, big money, mass, bundle, snooze, good deal, stack, mountain, galvanic pile, atomic pile, deal, piling, stilt, big bucks, chain reactor, megabucks, wad, flock, hatful, mickle, slew, heap, down, great deal, mess, forty winks, sight, voltaic pile, sleep, cat sleep, cumulus, catnap, cumulation, pot, agglomerate

8. atomic pile, atomic reactor, pile, chain reactorverb

   a nuclear reactor that uses controlled nuclear fission to generate energy

   Synonyms:
   tidy sum, mound, peck, mint, nap, plenty, lot, spile, batch, raft, quite a little, passel, spate, muckle, big money, bundle, good deal, stack, mountain, sight, atomic pile, deal, piling, atomic reactor, big bucks, chain reactor, megabucks, wad, flock, hatful, mickle, slew, heap, down, great deal, mess, galvanic pile, mass, voltaic pile, stilt, cumulus, cumulation, pot, agglomerate

9. stack, pile, heapverb

   arrange in stacks

   "heap firewood around the fireplace"; "stack your books up on the shelves"

   Synonyms:
   mob, throng, jam, stack, heap, pack

10. throng, mob, pack, pile, jamverb

    press tightly together or cram

    "The crowd packed the auditorium"

    Synonyms:
    mob, wad, ram, backpack, jampack, pack, obstruct, take, heap, crush, tamp, block, occlude, load down, impede, tamp down, bundle, chock up, throng, stack, carry, obturate, cram, jam, close up, compact

11. pileverb

    place or lay as if in a pile

    "The teacher piled work on the students until the parents protested"

    Synonyms:
    mob, throng, jam, stack, heap, pack

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1. pilenoun

   Synonyms:
   heap, stack, accumulation

2. pileverb

   Synonyms:
   heap, stack, accumulate

How to use pile in a sentence?

1. Albert Wallace:

   I said, ‘Why is my son laying right here?’ and when I saw the pile of blood, I said ‘Justin, Justin, are you OK, son? You’re not responding, You’re not responding.'.

2. Phil Bell:

   Because these things are exhumed by opal miners, lots of other information is often lost, like their exact position in the mine and any other fossils that were found around it, we know of plenty of cases where a miner has brought up a handful of bones from a single animal. The rest of the thing might have been destroyed in the mining process or sitting in a waste pile at the bottom of the mine.

3. The IEA:

   While a rebalancing has clearly begun, the process is likely to be prolonged as a supply overhang is expected to persist through 2016 - suggesting global inventories will pile up further.

4. Bruce Arians:

   No, and I’ve seen enough dumb – you can’t pull guys out of a pile, we just got a big play, great field position, and he’s trying to pull a guy out of a pile, and I was trying to knock him off of that guy so he didn’t get a penalty.

5. The City of Ferguson:

   But a pile of trash in the middle of the street? The Washington Post is making a call over this?

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