After she had the heart attack, the pounds piled on, and her weight rose to 15 stone.
When I returned to live with my parents, the weight piled on because I was stuffing myself with home cooking.
The pressure piled on throughout the day with calls from senior figures across the party for her to resign.
1 an argument or attack by a large group of people against one person or a much smaller group:
After his temper tantrum, a pile-on by commentators immediately ensued.
It's disheartening to read of the inevitable pile-on that follows after somebody hits it big.
She joined the pile-on, with a patronizing put down of the candidate as an ambitious dumb middle-class mom.