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- verb Present participle of
heap .
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Examples
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IV. ii.21 (323,6) [and my profit therein, the heaping friendships] [W. reaping] I see not that the present reading is nonsense; the sense of _heaping friendships_ is, though like many other of our author's, unusual, at least unusual to modern ears, is not very obscure.
Notes to Shakespeare — Volume 01: Comedies Samuel Johnson 1746
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There is that other possibility: that you are a bitter psychopath who revels in heaping your hate on what others cherish.
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Steve Sailer has been way ahead of you in heaping blame on Bush.
Matthew Yglesias » On So-Called “Irresponsible” Borrowers 2009
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Strewn over the desk, and laying in heaping piles on the tops of bookshelf and on the floor, were papers and books.
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There is that other possibility: that you are a bitter psychopath who revels in heaping your hate on what others cherish.
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This is superb Tex-Mex served in heaping portions, perfectly seasoned, beautifully plated and presented by hospitable servers.
Five things to eat before you die | Homesick Texan Homesick Texan 2006
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It is like watching a nation busily engaged in heaping up its own funeral pyre.
Could Someone Please Explain This To Me ? Laban 2006
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“Nay;” and quoth the other, “He who owned this skull was a King of the Kings of the world, who dealt tyrannously with his subjects, specially wronging the weak and wasting his time in heaping up the rubbish of this world, till Allah took his sprite and made the fire his abiding-site; and this is his head.”
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For the next few minutes they made common cause in heaping ridicule on 'the political woman.'
The Convert 1907
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But Kirsteen, quite unused to beautiful manufactured things, admired them all, and found a pleasure in heaping together and contrasting with each other the soft silken stuffs, many of them with a sheen of two blended colours called "shot" in those days.
Kirsteen: The Story of a Scotch Family Seventy Years Ago Margaret 1891
erinmckean commented on the word heaping
"it means you are happy because you are eating" (from Aspendale Primary School, Melbourne)
December 9, 2015