Wordnet 3.0
VERB (1)
1.
stick together as if with gum;
- Example: "the inside of the pipe has gummed up"
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Gum \Gum\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Gummed (g[u^]md); p. pr. & vb.
n. Gumming.]
1. To smear with gum; to close with gum; to unite or stiffen
by gum or a gumlike substance; to make sticky with a
gumlike substance.
[1913 Webster]
He frets like a gummed velvet. --Shak.
[1913 Webster]
2. To chew with the gums, rather than with the teeth.
[PJC]
gum up
(a) To block or clog (a conduit) with or as if with gum;
as, to gum up the drainpipe.
(b) to interfere with; to spoil. [Slang]
[PJC]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
gum up
v 1: stick together as if with gum; "the inside of the pipe has
gummed up"
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
33 Moby Thesaurus words for "gum up":
ball up, bitch, bitch up, blow, bobble, bollix, bollix up,
bonehead into it, bugger, bugger up, bungle, cook, crab, cramp,
crimp, drop a brick, flub, foul up, goof, goof up, gum, hash up,
louse up, mess up, muck up, mucker, play hell with, play hob with,
queer, screw up, sink, snafu, snarl up