gum up (English, verb)
expansion: gum up (third-person singular simple present gums up, present participle gumming up, simple past and past participle gummed up)
Senses:
glosses: To become gooey or gummy.
tags: intransitive
glosses: To cause to be gooey or gummy, especially with the effect of obstructing the operation of some mechanism or process.
tags: transitive
glosses: To make non-functional; to interfere with or put into a state of disorder; to ruin.
tags: broadly
idiomatic
transitive
Forms:
form: gums up
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: gumming up
tags: participle
present
form: gummed up
tags: participle
past
form: gummed up
tags: past