gummed
- 1Simple past tense and past participle of gum.
He gummed the torn pages back together with a thin layer of paste.
The faded labels were gummed to the jars decades ago.
Note
One spelling does double duty, with the final m doubled before -ed. It carries every meaning of the verb: a toothless dog gummed its bone, a worn saw was gummed to open the spaces between its teeth, labels were gummed onto jars. With up it turns colloquial and means clogged or stalled. It is hyphenated before a noun (a gummed-up drain) and written open after a verb (the works were gummed up).
The old printer kept jamming because its rollers were gummed up with dried ink.
A toothless old dog gummed the crust until it was soft enough to swallow.
gummed is a form of gum
gum, verb: To interfere with how something works, making a thing or process run poorly. Full entry
- Spelling
- gum → gummed: double the m, add -ed
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /d/.
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