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gumming::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | mumbling |
| Type of | chew, chewing, manduction, mastication |
| Derivation | gum |
Examples of gumming
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You should have asked yourself if it was worth possibly gumming up a friendship.
From the suntimes.com
The 95 team saw it slip away due to a piece of tape gumming up a seatbelt insert.
From the news-journalonline.com
What it lots of Democrats vote for Santorum as a way of gumming up the process?
From the huffingtonpost.com
Instead of obsessing over repeal, Republicans will focus on gumming up the works.
From the newsweek.com
On this scale, water is more like treacle, gumming up pumps, valves and mixers.
From the newscientist.com
In the regional final, we see Wisconsin's defense gumming up the works for Florida.
From the sfgate.com
When he tries the tube out on the next few scratches, the liquid starts gumming up.
From the orlandosentinel.com
My guess is a recent Firefox update or upgrade is gumming up the works.
From the telegraph.co.uk
Indeed, 40% of antibiotics work by gumming up bacterial ribosomes in one way or another.
From the economist.com
- Chewing gum: a preparation (usually made of sweetened chicle) for chewing
- Cover, fill, fix or smear with or as if with gum; "if you gum the tape it is stronger"
- Gingiva: the tissue (covered by mucous membrane) of the jaws that surrounds the bases of the teeth
- Mumble: grind with the gums; chew without teeth and with great difficulty; "the old man had no teeth left and mumbled his food"
- Any of various substances (soluble in water) that exude from certain plants; they are gelatinous when moist but harden on drying
- Become sticky
- The gingiva (sing. and plur.: gingiva), or gums, consists of the mucosal tissue that lies over the alveolar bone.
- Gum is a sap or other resinous material associated with certain species of the plant kingdom. This material is often polysaccharide-based and most frequently is associated with woody plants, particularly under the bark or as a seed coating. ...
- Gum is a lunar crater that is located near the southeastern limb of the Moon, and is viewed nearly from the side from Earth. It lies along the western edge of the irregular Mare Australe, to the northeast of the crater Hamilton. ...
