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Gumming

Gum \Gum\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Gummed (g[u^]md); p. pr. & vb. n. Gumming.]

  1. To smear with gum; to close with gum; to unite or stiffen by gum or a gumlike substance; to make sticky with a gumlike substance.

    He frets like a gummed velvet.
    --Shak.

  2. To chew with the gums, rather than with the teeth. gum up

    1. To block or clog (a conduit) with or as if with gum; as, to gum up the drainpipe.

    2. to interfere with; to spoil. [Slang]

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gumming

vb. (present participle of gum English)

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gumming

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gumming

n. ineffectual chewing (as if without teeth) [syn: mumbling]

gum

  1. n. a preparation (usually made of sweetened chicle) for chewing [syn: chewing gum]

  2. the tissue (covered by mucous membrane) of the jaws that surrounds the bases of the teeth [syn: gingiva]

  3. any of various substances (soluble in water) that exude from certain plants; they are gelatinous when moist but harden on drying

  4. cement consisting of a sticky substance that is used as an adhesive [syn: glue, mucilage]

  5. wood or lumber from any of various gum trees especially the sweet gum [syn: gumwood]

  6. any of various trees of the genera Eucalyptus or Liquidambar or Nyssa that are sources of gum [syn: gum tree]

  7. [also: gumming, gummed]

gum

  1. v. grind with the gums; chew without teeth and with great difficulty; "the old man had no teeth left and mumbled his food" [syn: mumble]

  2. exude or form gum; "these trees gum in the Spring"

  3. [also: gumming, gummed]

Usage examples of "gumming".

His cohorts were doing their ghost dance now, thinking that if they stomped around long enough, revving their chain saws and gumming their snoose, the tide of jogging-shoed, tree-hugging, latte lovers would disappear into Puget Sound, taking their cell phones with them to fifty fathoms, their stacks of Helly Hansen catalogs and their World Wraps fast-food outlets.

The mortician resumed snipping and gumming, shaking his head, grinning like a clown.

There was grim solace in the fact that crooks were gumming their own game, by going after the very man they were trying to blame for their own misdeeds.

There was blood in my eyes, blood that was gumming the lids together and making me blind.

He tilted his weapon up to chip with a knifeblade at the matrix material gumming his ejection port.