piled in
Crammed into vehicle
Piled in describes people entering a space in numbers, quickly and without much order: The kids piled in after school, We all piled in the car.
The image is of bodies accumulating like objects in a pile.
The opposite action is pile out.
- heapedPiled in abundance
- swarmedGathered in overwhelming numbers
- surgedIncreased suddenly and forcefully
- stackedArranged in a heap
- overcrowdedFilled beyond capacity
press · jam · sardine can · pack · crammed · strewn · clambered · all aboard · squeezed · tight squeeze · huddled · poured in · entered · flooded · stuff · crush · congested · descended
direction of movement
piled inpiled out
Exited hurriedly en masse
filed out · poured out · dispersed · scattered · evacuated
quantity/accumulation
piled indispersed
Spread widely apart
scattered · spread out · cleared out · thinned out · filtered out