clumped up
Gathered in masses
Clumped up describes things that have gathered or stuck together in irregular masses.
Hair gets clumped up when wet or tangled.
Soil clumps up when overly moist.
My mascara got all clumped up.
The phrase emphasizes the messy, uneven quality of the clustering—not a neat grouping but a lumpy aggregation.
- herdedDrove animals together
- flockedGathered in crowds
- swarmedGathered in overwhelming numbers
- clusteredGathered closely together
- groupedArranged by similarity
bunched · piled · piled up · heaped · shoaled · congregated · lumped · compacted · coagulated · amassed · accumulated · huddled · matted · tangled up · concentrated · packed · pooled · stacked