Usually means: Adding pressure or criticism excessively.
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We found 13 dictionaries that define the word pile on:

General (8 matching dictionaries)
  1. pile on: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. pile (something) on, pile on: Merriam-Webster
  3. pile-on: Wordnik
  4. pile-on, pile on: Wiktionary
  5. pile (it) on: Dictionary.com
  6. pile on: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. pile on: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. pile on: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. pile on: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. pile on: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Pile On, pile-on: Urban Dictionary

Definitions from Wiktionary (pile on)

verb:  (ambitransitive) To jump on top of someone or something quickly.
verb:  (ambitransitive, figurative) To criticize someone or something in a concerted effort; to add on some additional critique.
verb:  (intransitive, figurative, sports) To unnecessarily extend the margin of a winning score.
verb:  (transitive, informal) To add or apply in great quantities.
noun:  Nonstandard spelling of pile-on. [An argument or fight in which one side is greatly advantaged by being more numerous or more closely allied than the other side.]

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