Dear Power Thesaurus...

[thnidu]

I wanted synonyms for "hemorrhoids". One of them was "piles", which is the one I was looking for, the one my grandmother used and I didn't understand.   The first 20 also included 
Dozens
Gobs
Heaps
Lots
Oodles
Rafts
Scads
Scores
Slews
Stacks
Tons
Wads 
- none of which have anything to do with hemorrhoids but which are all clearly synonyms for the common colloquial meaning of "piles".

Synonymy is not transitive.

Sincerely,

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