Can and Pile

Can

Can noun - A metal container in the shape of a cylinder.

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Pile and can are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Pile" instead a noun "Can".

Pile noun - A quantity of things thrown or stacked on one another.

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Can and pile are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Can" instead a noun "Pile".

Nearby Words: piled, piling

old	old can	old pile
full	full can	full pile
nice	nice can	nice pile
normal	normal can	normal pile
Other adjectives: dead, single, empty, small, entire, large, big, bottomless, huge, little, new, remaining, discarded, walking, literal, nearby, giant, bigger, heaping.

Engaging dungeons with large pulls is risky because the party can wipe if the tank is not strong enough to survive the dog pile or the healer can't heal enough HP to the tank.

Source: Casual/Competitive Conflict
Also; a vampire that is exposed to sunlight does not die, but is instead reduced to a living/undead pile of ash that can still speak and retains the same personality. Yikes!

Source: Western Animation / School For Vampires
The Doom series has this in spades — toxic barrels, rockets, the BFG and even your fists (with the berserk pack) can splatter most enemies into a pile of giblets. CHUNKY!

Source: Made of Plasticine

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