gum
/ɡʌm/ verbe C2En français : gommer, engommer, encrasser
- To apply an adhesive or gum to; to make sticky by applying a sticky substance to.
- To stiffen with glue or gum.
- To inelegantly attach into a sequence.
- To impair the functioning of a thing or process. · That cheap oil will gum up the engine valves.· The new editor can gum up your article with too many commas.
He/she/it gums · Prétérit gummed · Participe passé gummed · Forme en -ing gumming
Formes du verbe
- Forme de base
- gum
- He/she/it
- gums
- Prétérit
- gummed
- Participe passé
- gummed
- Forme en -ing
- gumming
Verbes à particule et expressions
Dans la bibliothèque
It’s 9.45 o’clock, and not a single picture hat or piece of pineapple chewing gum has showed up yet.”
Avonlea scholars often spent noon hour picking gum in Mr.
Bell’s spruce grove as usual, fully intending to stay only long enough to “pick a chew.” But spruce groves are seductive and yellow nuts of gum beguiling; they picked and loitered and strayed; and as usual the first thing that recalled them to a sense of the flight of time was Jimmy Glover shouting from the top of a patriarchal old spruce “Master’s coming.”
The boys, who had to wriggle hastily down from the trees, were later; and Anne, who had not been picking gum at all but was wandering happily in the far end of the grove, waist deep among the bracken, singing softly to herself, with a wreath of rice lilies on her hair as if she were some wild divinity of the shadowy places, was latest of all.
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