pile up
Found in thesaurus: increase,
garner,
pull together,
gather,
collect,
stash away,
lay in,
put in,
hive away,
salt away,
stack away,
store
pile up
collect, accumulate; be heaped up
piled up
accumulated, gathered, collected
Multiple-vehicle collision
A
multiple vehicle collision (colloquially known as a
multi-car collision,
multi-vehicle collision,
pile-up, or
chain-reaction crash) is a road traffic accident involving many
vehicles. Generally occurring on high-capacity and high-speed routes such as freeways, they are one of the deadliest forms of traffic accidents. The most disastrous pile-ups have involved more than a hundred vehicles.
pile up
Verb
1. collect or gather; "Journals are accumulating in my office"; "The work keeps piling up"
(synonym) accumulate, cumulate, conglomerate, gather, amass
(hypernym) increase
(hyponym) backlog
2. arrange into piles or stacks; "She piled up her books in my living room"
(synonym) heap up, stack up
(hypernym) gather, garner, collect, pull together
3. get or gather together; "I am accumulating evidence for the man's unfaithfulness to his wife"; "She is amassing a lot of data for her thesis"; "She rolled up a small fortune"
(synonym) roll up, collect, accumulate, amass, compile, hoard
(hypernym) store, hive away, lay in, put in, salt away, stack away, stash away
(hyponym) run up
pile-up
n.
hromadná srážka
pile up
gromadzić się; rosnąć
pile-up
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