mounds 1 of 2

noun

plural of mound
1
as in banks
a pile or ridge of granular matter (as sand or snow) mounds of snow after the plow had passed

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2
as in piles
a quantity of things thrown or stacked on one another an ever-growing mound of dirty laundry on the floor

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3
as in hills
an area of high ground a pitcher's mound

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mounds

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verb

present tense third-person singular of mound
1
as in stacks
to form into a pile or ridge of earth mound the mulch around the plants

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2
as in heaps
to lay or throw on top of one another mounding slices of cheese on top of her sandwich meat

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Recent Examples of mounds
Noun
Gardener Tomoki Kato crafted a multilayered landscape featuring undulating mounds, red pine trees, a weeping cherry tree, and a pond. — Joanna Kawecki, Architectural Digest, 14 Aug. 2026 Ahead, pest pros share how to safely get rid of fire ant mounds and help keep them under control. — Michelle Mastro, Martha Stewart, 14 Aug. 2026 Arrange apple, sweet potatoes, and tofu over kale in separate mounds. — Rebecca Firkser, Bon Appetit Magazine, 13 Aug. 2026 Simply sprinkle a small amount around any ant mounds, garden beds, or pest entryways. — Farima Ferguson, The Spruce, 10 Aug. 2026 Look for tunnels, mounds, runways, and feeding damage, and consider whether your plants or soil are bearing the brunt of the problem. — Jessica Safavimehr, Southern Living, 5 Aug. 2026 Pine trees coat the forest floor with mounds of flammable dead leaves that are springy underfoot but which can smolder long after a blaze. — ABC News, 31 July 2026 The third hole features an 80-yard blind tee shot from one of the tee boxes, while the seventh hole has a 60-yard shot over a cove, and the ninth plays through two large mounds that were inspired by the famed opening hole at Tobacco Road. — Erik Matuszewski, Forbes.com, 31 July 2026 In an effort to starve the Native Americans of the Great Plains, white settlers massacred many millions of North American buffalo between 1870 and 1890, piling the animals’ skulls into monstrous mounds reaching up to the sky. — Literary Hub, 20 July 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for mounds
  1. banks
  2. piles
  3. hills
  4. stacks
  5. mountains
  6. cliffs
  7. clumps
  8. drifts
Noun
  • That could force foreign companies and banks to choose between doing business with Iran and retaining access to the US financial system, potentially extending Washington’s leverage well beyond entities directly involved in Tehran’s oil trade.
    — Magdalena Del Valle, Fortune, 15 Aug. 2026
  • Small banks fully approved 57% of applicants, a higher rate than any other lender type in the survey.
    — TerDawn DeBoe, Forbes.com, 15 Aug. 2026
Definition of banks
Noun
  • Furious at seeing piles of dead bodies, Wolverine unlocks a rage ability where his devastating attacks do even more damage.
    — Jordan Moreau, Variety, 13 Aug. 2026
  • The system demanded piles of paper to ensure the never-ending influx of goods contained numbers that corresponded correctly, that actually checked out.
    — Michael Ashley, Forbes.com, 12 Aug. 2026
Definition of piles
Noun
  • The students then used a topographical map from the Internet and CNC machine to get the hills exactly right.
    — John Lauritsen, CBS News, 14 Aug. 2026
  • Just before reaching a mile, the trail begins to flatten, giving hikers a small break, though rolling hills continue for the next half-mile.
    — Maura Fox, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Aug. 2026
Definition of hills
Verb
  • This technique, known as lucky imaging, records short video clips at high frame rates to freeze fleeting moments of steady air, then stacks the sharpest frames into one crisp photo.
    — Damian Peach, Space.com, 13 Aug. 2026
  • Samsung's zHBM, shown at the FMS conference last week, stacks memory directly on the accelerator to multiply effective bandwidth.
    — Jon Markman, Forbes.com, 9 Aug. 2026
Definition of stacks
Noun
  • As the plane descends, a lush landscape of verdant mountains that flow down into charming villages, beaches, and the crystal-clear waters beyond appears.
    — Connor Sturges, Condé Nast Traveler, 18 Aug. 2026
  • As glaciers and permafrost — the frozen soil sediment and rock that acts like a glue holding mountains together — melt due to higher temperatures caused by climate change, the threat of landslides is rising in the Swiss Alps.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 18 Aug. 2026
Definition of mountains
Noun
  • Big Bend National Park, Texas — The towering cliffs, jagged mountain tops, and punishing desert climate of the Big Bend region in Texas have long proved to be the best barrier the United States could have with Mexico.
    — Ashley Killough, CNN Money, 13 Aug. 2026
  • The park was scheduled to open last year, but was delayed when winter rains caused two major landslides along its cliffs, requiring significant shoring up to keep an emergency access route open.
    — Paul Rogers, Mercury News, 13 Aug. 2026
Definition of cliffs
Verb
  • Dividing clumps every few years in early spring also maintains their vigor.
    — SJ McShane, Martha Stewart, 11 July 2026
  • Like generations of potential treatments before it, KRSA-028 is designed to break down a protein called amyloid that clumps up in the brains of Alzheimer’s patients.
    — Allison DeAngelis, STAT, 18 Feb. 2026
Definition of clumps
Noun
  • An air quality advisory has been issued for the San Francisco Bay Area, as smoke from fires burning in the Pacific Northwest drifts into the region.
    — Tim Fang, CBS News, 4 Aug. 2026
  • Pay drifts again the moment reviews stop, so the companies actually narrowing the gap are the ones treating it as an ongoing practice, not a box checked once and revisited only when the numbers make headlines.
    — Kara Dennison, Forbes.com, 20 July 2026
Definition of drifts

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