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1. Ineffectual chewing (as if without teeth)
   - mumbling

1. Cover, fill, fix or smear with or as if with gum
   "if you gum the tape it is stronger"
    
2. Grind with the gums; chew without teeth and with great difficulty
   "the old man had no teeth left and gummed his food";
   - mumble
    
3. Become sticky
    
4. Exude or form gum
   "these trees gum in the spring"

Derived forms: gummings

Type of: apply, change, chew, chewing, exudate, exude, jaw [informal], manducate, manduction, masticate, mastication, ooze, ooze out, put on, transude

Encyclopedia: Gumming