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Meanings of piles in English

Portuguese
hemorróidas
Catalan
hemorroide
Wikidata

Pain caused by venous swelling at or inside the anal sphincter.

        hemorróidas
        Portuguese
        montão
        Catalan
        feix
        Spanish
        multitud

        A large number or amount.

            montão
            Usage of piles in English
            1
            The result is piles of highly flammable clothes building up in factories.
            The Guardian
            2
            However, when we paid piles of peanuts, we simply got greedy monkeys.
            The Irish Times
            3
            A report from an independent assessor found numerous problems with their piles.
            Radio NZ
            4
            There were also piles and piles of paper on every available surface.
            The last testament
            5
            Think of them stacked up in bright yellow piles in the warehouse.
            Mince Pie
            6
            The two sergeants searched through the piles of blue sheets in vain.
            The Ivory Trail
            7
            We had the piles of coffins waiting for interment in the churchyard.
            Memoirs of Sir Wemyss Reid 1842-1885
            8
            The piles are driven by means of the ordinary apparatus in use.
            Scientific American Supplement, No. 470, January 3, 1885
            9
            We discovered quite a storehouse of weapons and piles of incriminating correspondence.
            The Memoirs of Cleopatra
            10
            The total penetration of the piles into the clay averaged 27 feet.
            Scientific American Supplement, No. 613, October 1, 1887
            11
            It's early days, but iQOS is already bringing in piles of cash.
            Reuters
            12
            I saw the evidence each morning as I shoveled up his piles.
            Marley & me: life and love with the world's worst dog
            13
            They also found Vietnamese uniforms among the piles of clothing, he said.
            Reuters
            14
            The tall piles swayed to and fro, like willows in the wind.
            The San Francisco Calamity by Earthquake and Fire
            15
            The oil is more effective in bleeding and dysentery and bleeding piles.
            Mother's Remedies / Over One Thousand Tried and Tested Remedies ...
            16
            Oil prices were pressured by signs of rising U.S. crude stock piles.
            Reuters
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