Gumming
/ˈɡʌmɪŋ/ noun, verb
noun, verb ·Moderate ·College level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 The act of chewing without teeth. countable, uncountable
"We give teething babies ABC books made of materials that can withstand repeated gummings."
- 2 ineffectual chewing (as if without teeth) wordnet
- 3 The manual removal of clay, or "gum", from cut coal. countable, historical, uncountable
- 4 The act of fastening with gum, especially the application of gum-water to a lithographic stone. countable, uncountable
- 5 Synonym of gummosis (“plant disease”). countable, uncountable
Verb
- 1 present participle and gerund of gum form-of, gerund, participle, present
Example
More examples"Calling themselves "anonymous", the hackers hoped to flood the company's pages with web traffic, crashing the site — or at least gumming things up enough to make life miserable for the credit card giant."