heaped

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heaped /hiːpt/ British EnglishBrE, heaping /hiːpɪŋ/ American EnglishAmE adjectiveadj

heaped teaspoon/tablespoon etc DFCPIECEan amount of something that is as much as a spoon can hold 满满的一茶匙/汤匙等

Add three heaped teaspoons of sugar.

加入满满三茶匙的糖。

Examples from the Corpus

heaped• The waitress showed with my heaped and steaming plate.• The youngest dead had the most flowers, heaped chrysanthemums in plastic coats fringing the oval photograph.• Unselfconscious of his near-nakedness, he reached down to his carelessly heaped clothing and extracted his shirt from it.• Motamid heaped gifts upon him, gold and jewels and rich silks.• He made a simple crib for the baby, and heaped praise on Sien whenever she acted maternally.• They also heaped praise on the police for the investigation which eventually caught the three.• She spooned four heaped spoonfuls of sugar into it and some condensed milk and sat at the kitchen table.

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