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gum up

VERB
  1. stick together as if with gum
    the inside of the pipe has gummed up

How To Use gum up In A Sentence

  • Because my dad is a neat freak and he would be so upset if he knew I'd let some soap scum accumulate on the shower, or toothpaste gum up the sink. Peace In A Dyson | Her Bad Mother
  • The budgerigars were all asleep in the big red gum up above, and somewhere along the river bed, the mopoke was calling again. Wildwood
  • But by responding slowly or uncooperatively to information requests from the commission, Administration officials or bureaucrats can gum up the works rather easily.
  • Ordinarily, this cash liquidity premium is too small to gum up the works.
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