English Dictionary

pile on

verb

(transitive) To jump on top of someone or something quickly. / (transitive, figuratively) To criticize someone or something in a concerted effort.

They pile on the blankets to stay warm during the winter.

意味（1）

(transitive) To jump on top of someone or something quickly.

As football linebackers pile on a quarterback in a blitz, the newspaper editorialist heaped sarcasm onto the president.

意味（2）

(transitive, figuratively) To criticize someone or something in a concerted effort.

Piling on Nickelback is old hat. Can't we all just move on already? Chad Kroeger and his band are still the group everyone loves to hate, but after the Queensland police put out a wanted poster for them for ‘crimes against music’ Luke Holland asks: has the hating gone too far?

意味（3）

(intransitive, figuratively, sports) To unnecessarily extend the margin of a winning score.