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gumming en · NOUN

Pronunciation

  • /ˈɡʌmɪŋ/

Meanings

  1. (countable, uncountable) The act of chewing without teeth.
    • We give teething babies ABC books made of materials that can withstand repeated gummings. 1994, Don Byrd, The Poetics of the Common Knowledge, page 201:
  2. (countable, historical, uncountable) The manual removal of clay, or "gum", from cut coal.
  3. (countable, uncountable) The act of fastening with gum, especially the application of gum-water to a lithographic stone.
  4. (countable, uncountable) Synonym of gummosis (“plant disease”).

Forms

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Synonyms

gummosis

gumming en · VERB

Pronunciation

  • /ˈɡʌmɪŋ/

Meanings

  1. (form-of, gerund, participle, present) present participle and gerund of gum
    form of gum

Deriveds

nongumming