1. gum

noun. ['ˈgʌm'] the tissue (covered by mucous membrane) of the jaws that surrounds the bases of the teeth.

Rhymes with Gum

• mccrumb
• mccrum
• deblum
• ancrum
• succumb
• strum
• hohum
• exum
• become
• baucum
• swum
• stumm
• stum
• slum
• shrum
• sharum
• scum
• schrum
• plumb
• plum
• pflum
• narum
• krumme
• krumm
• krum
• klumb
• grum
• glum
• frum
• from

Sentences with gum

1. Noun, singular or mass
Put the spirit gum on the last 1/4 inch of the brow and let it dry for five minutes.

2. Noun, plural
Actual chewing can help, too -- chewing gum regularly can help strengthen the mylohyoid.

3. Adjective
of gum tragacanth.

Quotes about gum

1. You've got to eat while you dream. You've got to deliver on short-range commitments, while you develop a long-range strategy and vision and implement it. The success of doing both. Walking and chewing gum if you will. Getting it done in the short-range, and delivering a long-range plan, and executing on that.
- Jack Welch

2. I don't think you should be an Auror, Harry,"said Luna unexpectedly. Everybody looked at her. "The Aurors are part of the Rotfang Conspiracy, I thought everyone knew that. They're working to bring down the Ministry of Magic from within using a mixture of dark magic and gum disease.
- J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

3. I’m 33, and an 18-year-old girl called me old. I said, “You may be temporarily young, but you’ll forever be childish.” Then I put gum in her hair.
- Jarod Kintz, This Book is Not FOR SALE

2. gum

noun. ['ˈgʌm'] a preparation (usually made of sweetened chicle) for chewing.

3. gum

noun. ['ˈgʌm'] any of various substances (soluble in water) that exude from certain plants; they are gelatinous when moist but harden on drying.

4. gum

verb. ['ˈgʌm'] become sticky.

5. gum

verb. ['ˈgʌm'] grind with the gums; chew without teeth and with great difficulty.

6. gum

noun. ['ˈgʌm'] cement consisting of a sticky substance that is used as an adhesive.

7. gum

verb. ['ˈgʌm'] exude or form gum.

8. gum

verb. ['ˈgʌm'] cover, fill, fix or smear with or as if with gum.

9. gum

noun. ['ˈgʌm'] any of various trees of the genera Eucalyptus or Liquidambar or Nyssa that are sources of gum.

10. gum

noun. ['ˈgʌm'] wood or lumber from any of various gum trees especially the sweet gum.