Unscramble heaps

Definition of heaps

adverb:

• very much; "thanks heaps".

noun:

• a large number or amount; "made lots of new friends", "she amassed stacks of newspapers". Synonyms: dozens, gobs, lashings, loads, lots, oodles, piles, rafts, scads, scores, slews, stacks, tons, wads.
• a collection of objects laid on top of each other. Synonyms: agglomerate, cumulation, cumulus, heap, mound, pile.
• (often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent; "a batch of letters", "a deal of trouble", "a lot of money", "he made a mint on the stock market", "see the rest of the winners in our huge passel of photos", "it must have cost plenty", "a slew of journalists", "a wad of money". Synonyms: batch, deal, flock, good deal, great deal, hatful, heap, lot, mass, mess, mickle, mint, mountain, muckle, passel, peck, pile, plenty, pot, quite a little, raft, sight, slew, spate, stack, tidy sum, wad.
• a car that is old and unreliable; "the fenders had fallen off that old bus". Synonyms: bus, heap, jalopy.

verb:

• bestow in large quantities; "He heaped him with work", "She heaped scorn upon him". Synonyms: heap.
• arrange in stacks; "heap firewood around the fireplace", "stack your books up on the shelves". Synonyms: heap, pile, stack.
• fill to overflow; "heap the platter with potatoes". Synonyms: heap.

Related words

cord, deluge, dunghill, flood, haymow, inundation, midden, muckheap, muckhill, pyre, rick, scrapheap, shock, slagheap, stack, stockpile, torrent, woodpile.

Words nearby

heap.

Rhymes with

creeps.