Antonyms for stack up

Grammar : Noun, verb

Spell : stak

Phonetic Transcription : stæk

Definition of stack up

Origin : c.1300, "pile, heap, or group of things," from Old Norse stakkr "haystack" (cf. Danish stak, Swedish stack "heap, stack"), from Proto-Germanic *stakkoz, from PIE *stognos- (cf. Old Church Slavonic stogu "heap," Russian stog "haystack," Lithuanian stokas "pillar"), from root *steg- "pole, stick" (see stake (n.)). Meaning "set of shelves on which books are set out" is from 1879. Used of the chimneys of factories, locomotives, etc., since 1825.

As in mishap : noun accident
As in accident : noun unexpected, undesirable event; often physically injurious
As in holding pattern : noun waiting path or place
As in crash : noun collision, accidental hitting
As in rise : verb increase, grow
As in test : verb examine, quiz
As in total : verb add up
As in accumulate : verb gather or amass something
As in gather : verb come or bring together

Example sentences :

And you've found out what it is to stack up against the Giants.
Extract from : « Baseball Joe in the Big League » by Lester Chadwick

How will he stack up if that bunch goes to his ranch on the Turkey?
Extract from : « Laramie Holds the Range » by Frank H. Spearman

Just stack up your pile alongside of that and then trot out your snakelet.'
Extract from : « Side Show Studies » by Francis Metcalfe

Youll have to do your prettiest when you stack up against them, Joe.
Extract from : « Baseball Joe on the Giants » by Lester Chadwick

Then show me what youve got to stack up against this ninety-eight dollars.
Extract from : « The Snow-Burner » by Henry Oyen

I'm willing to stack up my bank-account with any other candidate.
Extract from : « The Slim Princess » by George Ade

“Oh, I just came over to see what sort of a football eleven you were going to stack up against us this fall,” answered Tom easily.
Extract from : « A Quarter-Back's Pluck » by Lester Chadwick

But how would the Idaho stack up against the something that lay below the horizon?
Extract from : « The Lost Warship » by Robert Moore Williams

He flipped through the first five pages, then squared the stack up again.
Extract from : « Makers » by Cory Doctorow

Down in Texas you may be a bad, bad man, a sure enough wolf, but in Wyoming you only stack up to coyote size.
Extract from : « A Texas Ranger » by William MacLeod Raine

Synonyms for stack up

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