hilled

verb

past tense of hill
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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  1. piled
  2. mounded
  3. stacked
  4. banked
Verb
  • Mobile light towers were stationed outside alongside waste management trucks, and large stacks of sandbags were piled up.
    — Jazmin Alvarado, Los Angeles Times, 26 June 2026
  • May added 172,000 jobs, with the gains piled into leisure and hospitality, state and local government, and health care, while financial activities slipped and information work kept bleeding year over year.
    — Alexander Puutio, Forbes.com, 26 June 2026
Definition of piled
Verb
  • The uniform mounded shape and purple hues of the flower spikes, along with the contrasting silvery foliage, add attractive structure and framing along the edges of paved walkways.
    — Gemma Johnstone, The Spruce, 22 June 2026
  • Kent mounded up soil the couple bought from GreatSoil to create some elevation.
    — Caron Golden, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 May 2026
Definition of mounded
Verb
  • Still, the game’s result seemed minuscule when stacked against Alfonso’s personal tragedy and the earthquake’s destruction in Venezuela.
    — Liana Handler Follow, Los Angeles Times, 6 July 2026
  • The odds of making MLB are always long, but are stacked even higher against players like this.
    — Dom Amore, Hartford Courant, 5 July 2026
Definition of stacked
Verb
  • When your customers can't get banked anywhere else, the back-office cost becomes the moat.
    — Boaz Sobrado, Forbes.com, 30 June 2026
  • The plane banked to the left after takeoff and crashed less than a minute later near houses, according to the flight tracking service Flightradar24.
    — Antonin Utz, Los Angeles Times, 28 June 2026
Definition of banked
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