heap
verb/hiːp/
/hiːp/
Verb Forms
Idioms | present simple I / you / we / they heap | /hiːp/ /hiːp/ |
| he / she / it heaps | /hiːps/ /hiːps/ |
| past simple heaped | /hiːpt/ /hiːpt/ |
| past participle heaped | /hiːpt/ /hiːpt/ |
| -ing form heaping | /ˈhiːpɪŋ/ /ˈhiːpɪŋ/ |
- heap something (up) to put things in an untidy pile
- Rocks were heaped up on the side of the road.
- She looked at the vegetables heaped on the table.
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- to put a lot of something in a pile on something
- heap A on B She heaped food on my plate.
- heap B with A She heaped my plate with food.
- to give a lot of something such as praise or criticism to somebody
- heap A on B He heaped praise on his team.
- heap B with A He heaped his team with praise.
Word OriginOld English hēap (noun), hēapian (verb), of Germanic origin; related to Dutch hoop and German Haufen.
Idioms
See heap in the Oxford Advanced American Dictionarypour/heap scorn on somebody/something
- to speak about somebody/something in a way that shows that you do not respect them or have a good opinion of them
- Opposition politicians poured scorn on the proposals.
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