piled
PYLD/paɪld/
- 1Past tense and past participle of pile. Use this form when the stacking already happened.
She piled the dirty dishes in the sink after dinner.
The kids piled into the small car and drove off.
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- 2Having a soft surface of short raised threads, like a carpet or velvet.
Like the soft, fuzzy top of a thick carpet.
The deeply piled rug felt soft under their bare feet.
His winter coat had a thickly piled lining that kept him warm.
Similarnapped
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- 3Having a sharp point at one end.
Meges threw a spear well piled.
[1611?], Homer, The Iliads of Homer Prince of PoetsHere, piled means having a sharp point.Similarpointed
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- 4Made by heating and hammering together a bundle of iron bars.
Like a stack of papers pressed and stuck into one solid block.
The old gate was forged from piled iron that lasted for centuries.
Workers shaped piled bars by hammering bundled rods together.
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piled is a form of pile
pile, verb: To put things on top of each other, or to collect into a heap. Full entry
- Spelling
- pile → piled: add -d
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /d/.
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