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heap something (up)on someone or something

1. Lit. to pile something up on someone or something. (Upon is formal and less commonly used than on.) Please don't heap so much trouble upon me! Wally heaped leaves on the flower bed.

2. Fig. to give someone too much of something, such as homework, praise, criticism, etc. (Upon is formal and less commonly used than on.) Don't heap too much praise on her. She will get conceited. The manager heaped criticism on the workers.

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These he deposited in a heap on the big table, and dipping again, he fished out the stragglers and added them to the pile. Burning Daylight by London, Jack View in context It has taken me nearly six years to prepare these precious grains of dust, but the little heap on that dish is worth the price of a kingdom and many a king would give all he has to possess it. The Patchwork Girl of Oz by Baum, L. Frank View in context Tongs, pincers, large ploughshares, filled the interior of the furnace, and glowed in a confused heap on the coals. Notre-Dame de Paris by Hugo, Victor View in context			head off to head on head on a plate head out head out after head over heels head over heels in debt head over heels in love head to toe head toward head up headed headed for headline heads or tails heads up Heads up! heads will roll heal heal of heal over heal up health heap heap of heap on heap sight heap up heap with hear hear a peep out of hear about hear from hear of hear on the grapevine hear out hear the last of hear think hear through hear through the grapevine hearing hearing impaired hearken to heart heart and soul heart bleeds heart goes out to heart is in boots heart is in mouth heart is in the right place heart isn't in			Heamatite Heamoglobin Heamoglobin Heamoglobin HEAN Heaney Heaney Heaney, Seamus Heaney, Seamus (Justin) Heaney, Seamus (Justin) HEANO HEAO HEAO 1 heap heap heap heap heap Heap (programming) Heap Analysis and Verification Heap Bounded Assembly Language heap coals of fire on head heap coals of fire on head heap coals of fire on head Heap leaching Heap management Heap management Heap management heap of Heap of Crap heap on Heap or B-Tree heap Pelion on Ossa heap Pelion on Ossa heap roasting heap sampling heap sight Heap space Heap space Heap space heap up heap up heap upon heap upon heap upon heap with Heap-based memory allocation HEAPBC heaped heaped heaped heaped heaped capacity heaped coals of fire on head heaped coals of fire on head heaped coals of fire on head Heaped measure Heaped measure heaped on heaped on heaped on

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