heap
/hiːp/ verb B2- To pile in a heap. · He heaped the laundry upon the bed and began folding.
- To form or round into a heap, as in measuring.
- To supply in great quantity. · They heaped praise upon their newest hero.· Thanks for heaping superlatives on my latest performance.
He/she/it heaps · Past heaped · Past participle heaped · -ing form heaping
Verb forms
- Base form
- heap
- He/she/it
- heaps
- Past
- heaped
- Past participle
- heaped
- -ing form
- heaping
Phrasal verbs and expressions
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down she came upon a heap of sticks and dry leaves, and the fall was over.
With a snappy “Good-morning, Pitcher,” Maxwell dashed at his desk as though he were intending to leap over it, and then plunged into the great heap of letters and telegrams waiting there for him.
Mowgli had never seen an Indian city before, and though this was almost a heap of ruins it seemed very wonderful and splendid.
The news of Nag’s death was all over the garden, for the sweeper had thrown the body on the rubbish-heap.
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