单词 | piled-up |
释义 | piled-upadj. 1. Laid in a pile or piles; heaped; = piled adj.3 ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > arrangement or fact of being arranged > state of being gathered together > [adjective] > collecting into one mass or body > accumulated > heaping > heaped or piled upheapedc1380 heapedc1440 coppeda1552 piled1595 balked1598 up-piled1600 coacervate1626 castellated1780 piled-up1791 castellate1830 banked1838 coacervated1841 pyramided1866 1791 C. Smith Celestina III. 64 Behind those piled up stones against which you leaned. 1840 T. C. Haliburton Clockmaker 3rd Ser. xi. 155 I was actilly in a piled-up-agony. 1880 R. Browning Pan & Luna in Dramatic Idyls 37 Captive lay fleece on fleece of piled-up snow. 1898 P. Geddes Let. Feb. in P. Boardman Worlds of P. Geddes (1978) vi. 167 The piled-up picturesqueness of Old Edinburgh. 1948 H. Innes Blue Ice vii. 191 Mile on ghastly mile of piled-up snow-capped peaks. 1978 ‘L. Black’ Foursome i. 7 The piled-up dishes, bowls, plates. 2001 M. Bauer in Granta Spring 53 He placed a khata, a white scarf, on the altar of piled-up stones. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > directing or managing a ship > use of sails, spars, or rigging > [adjective] > with sails set > with all sails set piled-up1851 1851 H. Melville Moby-Dick li. 259 With every mast-head manned, the piled-up craft rolled down before the wind. 3. Chiefly U.S. Crashed, wrecked. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > [adjective] > destroyed forwroughta1325 lorna1400 destroyedc1440 perishedc1440 shentc1440 defeatc1540 spiltc1540 dissolved?1541 interempt1561 baned1568 mischievedc1570 defeated1578 ruined1585 downcast1592 gone1598 collapsed1610 to take up for hawks' meat1612 naughta1616 blasted1747 wreckeda1821 butchered1839 fucked-up1863 kaput1895 piled-up1906 shambled1940 1906 Reno (Nevada) Evening Gaz. 5 Apr. 1/7 Engineer Finch, looking back on the piled up coaches, assumed that many were killed and injured. 1939 J. Steinbeck Grapes of Wrath vi. 61 They ain't whole, out lonely on the road in a piled-up car. They ain't alive no more. 2002 Amer. Prospect (Nexis) 23 Sept. 44 Drivers have disappeared from behind their wheels, strewing highways with piled-up cars. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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