gum

gum is a 3-letter English word with 18 senses as noun, transitive verb, intransitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: The dense tissues which invest the teeth, and cover the adjacent parts of the jaws. Face value is 6 in Scrabble and 9 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

3 letters · Scrabble 6 · Words With Friends 9 · 18 senses

Definitions

1. noun. The dense tissues which invest the teeth, and cover the adjacent parts of the jaws.
2. transitive verb. To deepen and enlarge the spaces between the teeth of (a worn saw). See Gummer.
3. noun. A vegetable secretion of many trees or plants that hardens when it exudes, but is soluble in water; as, gum arabic; gum tragacanth; the gum of the cherry tree. Also, with less propriety, exudations that are not soluble in water; as, gum copal and gum sandarac, which are really resins.
4. noun. See Gum tree, below.
5. noun. A hive made of a section of a hollow gum tree; hence, any roughly made hive; also, a vessel or bin made of a hollow log.
6. noun. A rubber overshoe.
7. transitive verb. 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.
8. intransitive verb. To exude or from gum; to become gummy.
9. noun. the tissue (covered by mucous membrane) of the jaws that surrounds the bases of the teeth

   Synonyms: gingiva

10. noun. a preparation (usually made of sweetened chicle) for chewing
11. noun. any of various trees of the genera Eucalyptus or Liquidambar or Nyssa that are sources of gum
12. noun. wood or lumber from any of various gum trees especially the sweet gum

    Synonyms: gumwood

13. noun. cement consisting of a sticky substance that is used as an adhesive

    Synonyms: glue, mucilage

14. noun. any of various substances (soluble in water) that exude from certain plants; they are gelatinous when moist but harden on drying
15. verb. exude or form gum

    "these trees gum in the Spring"

16. verb. become sticky
17. verb. grind with the gums; chew without teeth and with great difficulty

    "the old man had no teeth left and mumbled his food"

    Synonyms: mumble

18. verb. cover, fill, fix or smear with or as if with gum

    "if you gum the tape it is stronger"

Synonyms

gingiva, gumwood, glue, mucilage, mumble

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in gum:

mug

Common word forms

gums, gumly, gummed, gummer, gumless, gumming

Words from these letters

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