strum
verb /strʌm/
/strʌm/
[intransitive, transitive]Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they strum | /strʌm/ /strʌm/ |
| he / she / it strums | /strʌmz/ /strʌmz/ |
| past simple strummed | /strʌmd/ /strʌmd/ |
| past participle strummed | /strʌmd/ /strʌmd/ |
| -ing form strumming | /ˈstrʌmɪŋ/ /ˈstrʌmɪŋ/ |
- strum (on) something to play a guitar or similar instrument by moving your fingers up and down across the strings
- As she sang she strummed on a guitar.
Oxford Collocations DictionaryStrum is used with these nouns as the object:- chord
- guitar
Word Originlate 18th cent.: imitative.