heapnoun [ C ]
uk/hiːp/us/hiːp/C2 an untidy pile or mass of things:
a heap of clothes/rubbish
More examples
- Put the vegetable peelings on the compost heap.
- Her belongings were scattered in various heaps around the room.
- The bullet hit him and he crumpled into a heap on the floor.
- There was an enormous heap of junk mail lying on the doormat when we got back.
- She raked up all the fallen leaves into a heap.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Masses and large amounts of things
- accumulation
- an embarrassment of riches idiom
- any number of things idiom
- backlog
- battery
- boatload
- bolus
- clot
- deluge
- fund
- lashing
- panoply
- plethora
- predominance
- preponderance
- profusion
- sheet
- shower
- thousand
- tidal wave
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Idiom(s)
the bottom of the heap
collapse/fall in a heap
a (whole) heap of sth
heapverb [ T + adv/prep ]
uk/hiːp/us/hiːp/to put things into a large, untidy pile:
He heaped more food onto his plate.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Placing and positioning an object
- -based
- appose
- bung
- change sth around
- clap
- consign
- consign sb/sth to sth
- fit
- manoeuvre
- perch
- pop
- position
- sandwich sth together
- set sb down
- shelve
- shove
- situate
- stand
- stuff
- whack
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Phrasal verb(s)
heap sth on sb