gum up

动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

动词 v.
  1. To become gooey or gummy. intransitive
    — Some types of lubricating grease gum up as they age.
  2. To cause to be gooey or gummy, especially with the effect of obstructing the operation of some mechanism or process. transitive
    — Aging grease had gummed up the record changer.
  3. To make non-functional; to interfere with or put into a state of disorder; to ruin. broadly,idiomatic,transitive
    — He had the car pushed to a near-by stable, amidst the mixed emotions of the little crowd, and next day he had it hauled home. / "You were right," he said, when I met him out again in it, a week later. "It was gummed up, so to speak; but it's working like a charm to-day.[…]"

词形变化

gums up present,singular,third-person gumming up participle,present gummed up participle,past gummed up past

词汇关系

衍生词
gum up the works
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