The phrase
"to gum up" means to cause something to become stuck, blocked or disrupted.
Full definition
Roast them first for the best flavor, and be sure to let them cool completely before processing so they do
n't gum up the blade.
Without it, sugars
gum up in the blood vessels as sugar does in a gas tank, causing an untreated diabetic to go into shock and die.
I found that the dry ingredients tended to
gum up if I didn't use it right away, though.
The result was no sticky label backing to
gum up machinery, and the complete elimination of backing paper.
Their one big concern was that the governor would
somehow gum up the works.
You need a point person for the meeting and at least two compatible partners — more than five
people gums up the process.
Joining a good critique group can be the easiest (and cheapest) way for new writers to learn the nuts and bolts of writing and keep those cringe - making first drafts
from gumming up slush piles or becoming part of the infamous «tsunami of self - published crap.»
Up on top we could see the whole of the fair: the tractor pull, the dance pavilion, cowboys in Wranglers leaning cowgirls built like sticks
of gum up against pickups out in the parking lot.
Plaque hinders neuronal activity
by gumming up synapses (spaces between cells through which chemical or electrical information is transmitted), eventually damaging nerve cell branches and leading to neuronal death.
And I think people are offended once they realize — most of them long, long after the fact, and through other avenues — that Hazanavicius had the temerity to peanut - butter a little obsessive, consumptive, solipsistic love in there to
gum up all the crevices.
by Anne R. Allen Joining a good critique group can be the easiest (and cheapest) way for new writers to learn the nuts and bolts of writing and keep those cringe - making first drafts from
gumming up slush piles or becoming part of the infamous «tsunami of self - published crap.»
Now, an average of one in six items dumped in blue bins is not recyclable,
gumming up processing facilities and jacking up costs.
- climate axis, and either could
seriously gum up Trudeau's plans as a federal election approaches.
Hagfish secrete copious amounts of gluelike slime to ward off predators, but the elephant seal seems to have
avoided gumming up its teeth by swallowing the hagfish whole.
I know the box from the fusible webbing says, «Machine Safe», but I understand this to mean you may sew with a sewing machine
without gumming up the needle.
Deep inside the brains of people with dementia and Lou Gehrig's disease, globs of abnormal
protein gum up the inner workings of brain cells — dooming them to an early death.
The end result: no sticky label backing to
gum up labeling machinery, and the complete elimination of backing paper.
My real goal is FIRE and I don't want too many bonds too
early gumming up my works.
But for three years, Cheetos were cardboard in the eyes of Canadian customs officials, spawning a decade - long saga that highlights the often - senseless
bureaucracy gumming up the Canada-U.S. border.
Here
God gums up in the mouth, won't spit itself out with every easy expletive, leaving the discussion free for disagreement.
The good news (for the Padres, not the Phillies) is they don't have an easily identifiable monster like Kris Bryant or Joey Gallo to
gum up trade talks because they're untouchable.
However, they work really well for thick liquids, particularly ones I don't
want gumming up my Holy Grail cups.
Cuomo, who has shown a willingness to hasten the legislative and budgetary process in New York's state government and insisted that the Legislature is not a «debating society» that
gums up law - making, knocked House Republicans for pushing through the tax reform plan.
I suppose the argument will be made that without the evil
Cahill gumming up the works (in exchange for Safety Net and election expense relief of the towns), the county would have pulled in at least another $ 3.8 million.
Now he's
gumming up Bill de Blasio's pre-K plan and leading the charter movement, positions anathema to the labor - fueled party's very existence.
If the necessary steps occur to put Democrats in the majority, Republicans would almost certainly attempt to block a leadership change in court, and while it's doubtful the supermajority provision would be upheld, it could
certainly gum up the works for a few weeks.
Mr Clegg has received a separate warning from 15 Liberal Democrat peers that Lords reform, his party's constitutional priority, will «
gum up completely» Parliament for at least a year.»
The five - cent fee is intended to encourage shoppers to bring reusable bags to stores in an effort to reduce use of plastic bags, which opponents say litter roadsides and waterways, and
gum up recycling machines.
It's is designed to never solidify and
gum up while protecting your guns from dirt and grim.
A NEW technique that exploits the Casimir effect — a strange quantum phenomenon that
gums up nanoelectromechanical systems — may pave the way for a switch that could cut the power consumption of nanoscale gadgets.
They might not stick around for long, but particles that pop in and out of existence could
gum up nano - machines
Cuervo's group found that a mutant protein associated with a heritable version of Parkinson's
gums up lysosomal channels.
They also show how the Bcl6 inhibitor, developed at Weill Cornell,
effectively gums up the protein, stopping it from working.
Lawsuits
inevitably gum up the planning process further, since nobody wants a transmission tower in his backyard — even when it carries renewable energy.
They seem to lower blood levels of triacylglycerol (often called triglyceride), keep cholesterol from
gumming up arterial walls, and help to control unwanted blood clotting and inflammation, among other risk factors.
The problem is that coke and other substances made by pyrolysis can
gum up zeolites.
In 2015, Rothstein's team found out how a mutation in a gene — implicated in 40 percent of inherited ALS cases and 25 percent of inherited frontotemporal dementia cases —
gums up transport in and out of the nucleus in neurons, ultimately shutting the cell down and leading to its death.
Researchers suspect that diseases such as Mad Cow, Parkinson's and Alzheimer's result from proteins that fold improperly and get tangled together,
thereby gumming up the brain.
Amyloid -
beta gums up the brains of people with Alzheimer's but also takes out dangerous brain invaders, scientists report May 25 in Science Translational Medicine.