Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To remove gum from; free from gum or a gummy substance, or from stickiness; degum.
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Examples
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The average American homebuyer can get a 30-year fixed-rate mortgage at 4.73 per cent this week, far below the 5.78 per cent of a year ago, reflecting the success of the Fed's moves to ungum the mortgage markets, which had been stubbornly refusing to pass on lower official interest rates until recently.
unknown title 2009
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They need to figure out what will ungum the gummed flow of transactions between banks.
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Your senators have ridden to the rescue and approved a piece of legislation that should ungum the credit crunch.
Warren Ellis 2008
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Your senators have ridden to the rescue and approved a piece of legislation that should ungum the credit crunch.
Warren Ellis 2008
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Your senators have ridden to the rescue and approved a piece of legislation that should ungum the credit crunch.
Warren Ellis 2008
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Your senators have ridden to the rescue and approved a piece of legislation that should ungum the credit crunch.
Warren Ellis 2008
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Your senators have ridden to the rescue and approved a piece of legislation that should ungum the credit crunch.
vendingmachine commented on the word ungum
see degum, deglutinate.
November 5, 2015
bilby commented on the word ungum
This seems like a boring thing to do. Humdrum ungum.
November 5, 2015
ruzuzu commented on the word ungum
http://www.cnn.com/2015/11/04/travel/seattle-pike-place-gum-wall-cleaning-feat/index.html
November 5, 2015