heap together

VERB

accumulate

Synonyms

STRONGEST

accrue acquire add to assemble collect compile concentrate expand gain grow hoard increase pile up rack up swell

STRONG

agglomerate aggregate amalgamate cache collocate cumulate gather heap incorporate lump mass pile procure profit stockpile store unite

WEAK

bring together clean up draw together load up make a bundle make a killing roll up round up scare up stack up store up

Antonyms

STRONGEST

contract decrease diminish disperse divide forfeit lessen lose scatter separate shrink spend waste

WEAK

dissipate dwindle squander

Example Sentences

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And I thought, ‘Well, we have all these social problems backed up. Why can’t we begin to put all these people we’re putting on the scrap heap together with these problems?’

From Washington Post • Jan. 26, 2022

Instead, he called him into his office and told him, "We're joined at the hip. Either we're going to the mountaintop together or we're going to the trash heap together."

From US News • Aug. 1, 2016

"It is because General de Gaulle wants to heap together the honors of the chief of state and the powers of the Prime Minister, to be Churchill and King George VI, Adenauer and Liibke."

From Time Magazine Archive

Both kids were curled in a messy heap together, snoring soundly, black hair mingling with brown, arms in a tangle, mouths open.

From "Orphan Island" by Laurel Snyder

Then he attempted to raise me up, but my weight and the tanglefoot were too much, and we all went down in a heap together, I under.

From Personal Recollections of the War of 1861 As Private, Sergeant and Lieutenant in the Sixty-First Regiment, New York Volunteer Infantry by Fuller, Charles Augustus

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