Definition
To make non-functional; to interfere with or put into a state of disorder; to ruin.
In Context
- "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.[…]""
- "Erhard presumably felt it was no time to give his enemies grounds for charging him with gumming up relations with France."
- "In the old days, a storm like this would gum up the entire system."