Gummed is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for GUMMED in dictionary:

VERB:
• GUM, 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
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
ADJECTIVE:
• covered with adhesive gum
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• to smear, seal, or clog with gum (a sticky, viscid substance)
• past tense of gum

Words related to GUMMED

gum6 gumming13 gums7

Words that contain GUMMED

degummed15 ungummed14

How to use GUMMED in a sentence

• For an herbarium, it ought to be gummed at once to the paper, for it becomes so brittle, in drying, that it falls to pieces with the most careful handling.
• At half past nine, we reached our breakfast place of the 30th, and there gummed our canoes.
• A fire was quickly kindled, and the canoes gummed, preparatory to embarkation.
• Thus gummed, and sealed with five seals, the envelope was enclosed to Dr.
• Nothing could excel the unsullied virginity of the seals, or of the gummed spaces between them.
• This I did by holding them successively to the light and adjusting them, then by fastening each to the preceding one with a strip of gummed paper along one of the edges.
• Or he can use sheets of blank paper of any uniform size and mount the specimens on these with gummed strips, and then group them, placing those of the same genus together.
• After drying, it is enveloped in folds of gummed linen, and placed in coffins.
• Ha! And the flap has been gummed, if I am not very much in error, by a person who had been chewing tobacco.
• She had often climbed into its lower branches, getting well gummed with fragrant pitch in the process.
• He listened respectfully to the sentence which condemned him to death, though he was busy sliding his tongue along the gummed edge of his envelope.
• Specimens should be first pressed or flattened between sheets of blotting paper and then mounted on sheets of white paper either by glue or by strips of gummed paper.
• The envelope was loosely gummed, and gave under gentle persuasion.
• My eyes were so gummed together that I had often to tear the lids apart to see.
• Over this she shifted and held the gummed envelope-flap, until the mucilage softened and dissolved.
• The gummed portions of unsealed envelopes in which circulars are received can be utilized for this purpose.
• A few days more and it would be filled up, finished, labelled with a gummed white label showing its number and the dates of its first and last entries, shelved and forgotten.
• But in writing to persons of distinction, not only is the letter gummed together, but it is tied up in several places with coloured ribbon, and then enclosed in a bag or purse.
• Its movement is often thick, its wings often gummed and heavy.
• So he showed them in handfuls, brown and glistening, or gummed with the sweet blood of cider.
• The resemblance is not so close, now that the fragments are gummed on card, as I at first thought.
• Dipping my brush in the glue, I gummed all the extreme outer edges.
• Hetty went to her own room immediately, and returned bringing about a dozen drawings in a very primitive portfolio made of several newspapers gummed together.
• Therefore he was abroad when Douglas was gummed with the poisonous sweet of Kansas and Nebraska.
• Round ones are best and those ready gummed do well if carefully put on.

Similar words containing GUMM without suffix ed

gumma10 gummi10 gummy13 gummas11 gummer11 gummis11 gummata12 gummers12 gummier12 gummies12 gummily15 gumming13 gummite12 gummose12 gummous12 degummed15 gummiest13 gummings14 gummites13 gummoses13 gummosis13 ungummed14 degumming16 gummatous14 gumminess14 gummosity17 thingummy20 ungumming15 gummiferous19 gumminesses16 gummosities16 thingummies19 thingummybob27 thingummyjig31 thingummybobs28 thingummyjigs32

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