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Gum up

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Verb
  1. 1
    To become gooey or gummy. intransitive

    "Some types of lubricating grease gum up as they age."

  2. 2
    stick together as if with gum wordnet
  3. 3
    To cause to be gooey or gummy, especially with the effect of obstructing the operation of some mechanism or process. transitive

    "Aging grease had gummed up the record changer."

  4. 4
    To make non-functional; to interfere with or put into a state of disorder; to ruin. broadly, idiomatic, transitive

    "He had the car pushed to a near-by stable, amidst the mixed emotions of the little crowd, and next day he had it hauled home. / "You were right," he said, when I met him out again in it, a week later. "It was gummed up, so to speak; but it's working like a charm to-day.[…]""

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