heaps up
Stacks into mounds
Heaps up means to accumulate or pile in increasing quantity.
Things heap up when they gather gradually: Work heaps up when you're away, Snow heaped up against the fence.
The phrase suggests disorder or excess—bills heap up, problems heap up, dirty laundry heaps up.
- amassCollect in quantity
- pileAccumulated mass of objects
- stackItems piled vertically
- overloadedBurdened past capacity
- accrueIncrease by addition
adds up · accumulate · racks up · aggregate · mound · hoard · towers · layer · compile · bundle · cluster · overflowing · collect · build · concentrate · tallies · stash · snowballs
accumulation vs. dispersal
heaps upscatters
Distributes irregularly about
disperses · spreads out · strews · disseminates · distributes