as in piled
to form into a pile or ridge of earth
hilled peat moss around the rosebushes to protect them from the freeze
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The team piled sandbags around the perimeter for protection.—
Clayton Dalton,
New Yorker,
15 May 2026 -
Staff deliver hot cinnamon buns with honeydew from the local Spoon and Key Market, sandwiches piled high with barbecue chicken, and after the final snorkel session, adult beverages on the way back to shore.—
Laura Dannen Redman,
Robb Report,
14 May 2026
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Kent mounded up soil the couple bought from GreatSoil to create some elevation.—
Caron Golden,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
9 May 2026
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One stretch, called Stuyvesant Cove Park, comprises only a floodable esplanade with plantings mounded up to the top of an eight-foot-high barrier wall that rises from street level and runs along an elevated section of FDR Drive.—
James S. Russell,
Bloomberg,
13 Mar. 2026
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That drone touches down at the address of architect Otone Komoto (Haruka Ayase), who designed her family’s modernist home, an arrangement of overlapping boxes stacked around a garden courtyard.—
David Rooney,
HollywoodReporter,
16 May 2026
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The list of performers at this year's awards ceremony is stacked!—
Ilana Kaplan,
PEOPLE,
16 May 2026
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And when Jalen Brunson banked in a floater with just under four minutes left in the period — a sequence that sent Maxey into frustration and head coach Nick Nurse calling a timeout — the Knicks’ lead suddenly swelled to 12.—
Kristian Winfield,
New York Daily News,
9 May 2026
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Some players, with the big contract banked and a ring on the mantle, would’ve called it a career at 34 years old.—
Mitch Bannon,
New York Times,
7 May 2026
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“Hilled.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hilled. Accessed 23 May. 2026.
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