I.
noun
ADJECTIVE
▪ big , great , large
▪ little , small
▪ crumpled
▪ ash ( AmE , usually figurative ), rubbish ( BrE ), scrap , slag , spoil ( esp. BrE ), trash ( AmE )
▪
the ash ~ of history
▪
colliery spoil ~s
▪ compost , manure ( esp. BrE )
VERB + HEAP
▪ be piled in
▪
Papers were piled in great ~s on the desk.
▪ collapse in , fall down in , fall in ( all figurative )
▪
He collapsed in an exhausted ~ on the floor.
PREPOSITION
▪ in a/the ~
▪
His clothes lay in a crumpled ~ on the floor.
▪ on a/the ~ , onto a/the ~
▪
Throw the potato peelings on the compost ~.
▪ ~ of
▪
a great ~ of stones
PHRASES
▪ the bottom of the ~ , the top of the ~ ( figurative )
▪
These workers are at the bottom of the economic ~.
II.
verb
Heap is used with these nouns as the object: ↑ misery , ↑ praise , ↑ scorn