verb Download 🔗Share To chew, especially of a toothless person or animal. Examples : "The old man was gumming his food slowly, carefully, since he had no teeth. " physiology animal food body human Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
verb Download 🔗Share To deepen and enlarge the spaces between the teeth of (a worn saw), as with a gummer. Examples : "The saw was cutting poorly, so he spent the afternoon gumming it to improve its cutting ability. " technical machine work industry Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
verb Download 🔗Share (sometimes with up) To apply an adhesive or gum to; to make sticky by applying a sticky substance to. Examples : "The toddler was gumming the picture with paste before sticking it onto the construction paper. " material substance action Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
verb Download 🔗Share To stiffen with glue or gum. Examples : "The spilled juice was gumming the pages of my notebook together. " material substance Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
verb Download 🔗Share (sometimes with together) To inelegantly attach into a sequence. Examples : "The child was gumming together colorful paper scraps to make a collage. " action process Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
verb Download 🔗Share (with up) To impair the functioning of a thing or process. Examples : "That cheap oil will gum up the engine valves." process function action Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun Download 🔗Share The act of chewing without teeth. Examples : "The baby was enjoying the gumming of the soft banana, since she didn't have any teeth yet. " physiology action body Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun Download 🔗Share The manual removal of clay, or "gum", from cut coal. Examples : "The coal miners spent hours on the tedious gumming, removing the clay clinging to the newly cut coal. " material substance geology industry technical work Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun Download 🔗Share The act of fastening with gum, especially the application of gum-water to a lithographic stone. Examples : "The artist meticulously applied gum-water to the stone; this process, called gumming, protects the areas that should not accept ink. " art material technical process Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun Download 🔗Share A disease marked by a discharge of gum, affecting stone fruit. Examples : "The orchard owner worried about the rising instances of gumming in his apricot trees, fearing a significant loss of fruit. " disease fruit plant biology agriculture Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
