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
   - 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, manducate, manduction, masticate, mastication, ooze, ooze out, put on, transude

Encyclopedia: Gum

• sodalite
• sodality
• sodbuster
• sodden
• sodding
• soddy
• sodium
• sodium benzoate
• sodium bicarbonate
• sodium bichromate
• sodium carbonate
• sodium carboxymethyl cellulose
• sodium chlorate
• sodium chloride
• sodium cyanide
• sodium dichromate
• sodium ethylmercurithiosalicylate
• sodium fluoride
• sodium hydride
• sodium hydrogen carbonate
• sodium hydroxide
• sodium hypochlorite
• sodium iodide
• sodium lauryl sulfate
• sodium lauryl sulphate