Skip to content

ammucchiare

to pile up

verb ahm-mook-KYAH-reh Rare
Home & Lifestyle Household Items

Origin: From Italian mucchio (heap, pile) + am- prefix, from Germanic *mūk-

Also means

to heap

Usage Note

Ammucchiare means to gather things into a disorderly heap. It is often reflexive: ammucchiarsi means to pile up or to crowd together. In informal usage it can describe people crowding into a space: si sono ammucchiati all'ingresso (they piled up at the entrance). The related noun is mucchio (heap).

Examples

"Ha ammucchiato i vestiti sul letto."

Natural Translation

She piled the clothes up on the bed.

Explore Italian by topic