Gum is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for GUM in dictionary:

VERB:
• to smear with gum (a sticky substance)
• cover with gum or glue
• fasten with gum or glue
• clog up a mechanism and prevent it from working properly
• chew (something) with toothless gums
• To deepen and enlarge the spaces between the teeth of (a worn saw). See Gummer.
• To smear with gum; to close with gum; to unite or stiffen by gum or a gumlike substance; to make sticky with a gumlike substance.
• To exude or from gum; to become gummy.
• cover, fill, fix or smear with or as if with gum
• grind with the gums; chew without teeth and with great difficulty
• become sticky
• exude or form gum
• stick with gum
RESIDUAL:
• genito-urinary medicine.
NOUN:
• a viscous secretion of some trees and shrubs that hardens on drying but is soluble in water, and from which adhesives and other products are made.
• glue that is used for sticking paper or other light materials together.
• a sticky secretion collecting in the corner of the eye.
• a gum tree, especially a eucalyptus.
• the firm area of flesh around the roots of the teeth in the upper or lower jaw
• an exclamation used for emphasis
• firm flesh in which the teeth are set
• The dense tissues which invest the teeth, and cover the adjacent parts of the jaws.
• A vegetable secretion of many trees or plants that hardens when it exudes, but is soluble in water; as, gum arabic; gum tragacanth; the gum of the cherry tree. Also, with less propriety, exudations that are not soluble in water; as, gum copal and gum sandarac, which are really resins.
• See Gum tree, below.
• A hive made of a section of a hollow gum tree; hence, any roughly made hive; also, a vessel or bin made of a hollow log.
• A rubber overshoe.
• a preparation (usually made of sweetened chicle) for chewing
• the tissue (covered by mucous membrane) of the jaws that surrounds the bases of the teeth
• any of various substances (soluble in water) that exude from certain plants; they are gelatinous when moist but harden on drying
• cement consisting of a sticky substance that is used as an adhesive
• wood or lumber from any of various gum trees especially the sweet gum
• any of various trees of the genera Eucalyptus or Liquidambar or Nyssa that are sources of gum
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• to smear, seal, or clog with gum (a sticky, viscid substance)

Words related to GUM

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Words that contain GUM

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How to use GUM in a sentence

• The territory around is not very fertile on account of the neighbourhood of the Desert, but produces gum, wax, and ostrich feathers in abundance.
• Her voice was a riot of uncontrolled vitality, and, as though to use up a little of all this superfluous energy, she was violently chewing gum.
• Starch, gum, and sugar can all be changed into fat.
• The transformation of starch and gum into sugar is also constantly going on in the ripening of fruits.
• Clad in a gum coat, I would take my gun and brave the elements, when a seat by the fireside would have been much more comfortable.
• The gum trees of New Holland are extremely hard, and their wood is so heavy that it sinks in water like iron.
• Whether Clerk Gum kept his word, or whether he did not, certain it was that Mr.
• But nothing looked so noble as the sweet gum, which rose like a giant plume of yellow and orange, a chief in joyous finery, where the cypress was only a faded philosopher.
• His heart is sick, as that of a man who has eaten of the sycamore gum.
• Starch is soluble in hot water, and becomes of the nature of gum.
• The demand for the raw gum, almost created by him, is introducing abundance and developing industry in the regions which produce it.
• The varieties, however, known as gum core have to go through a different process.
• If we had to deal with unknown laws as well as unknown conditions we should, indeed, be up a gum tree.

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