gaum

verb

ˈgȯm How to pronounce gaum (audio)
Definition of gaumnext
dialect
as in to stain
to make dirty the kitchen floor was all gaumed up from countless spills

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for gaum
  1. stain
  2. dirty
  3. blacken
  4. soil
  5. mess
Verb
  • Its players are turncoats whose legacies are forever stained.
    — Greg Cote, Miami Herald, 6 Apr. 2025
  • Be careful and don’t use it every wash because these products can stain your hair with a pink or lavender tint.
    — Jennifer Hussein, Allure, 4 Apr. 2025
Definition of stain
Verb
  • Grease dirtied the handles of the ovens, the microwave ovens and the coolers.
    — David J. Neal, Miami Herald, 14 Feb. 2025
  • Instead of dirtying a larger pot for your supporting dishes, this quaint cooker will come in handy for quick (or slower simmering) concoctions while matching your kitchen atmosphere.
    — Sophia Beams, Better Homes & Gardens, 14 Jan. 2025
Definition of dirty
Verb
  • Unlike a total solar eclipse, when the disk of the sun is completely blackened, an eclipsed moon does not vanish completely from the sky.
    — Jeffrey Kluger, TIME, 11 Mar. 2025
  • But the negro resents and utterly repudiates the effort to blacken his good name by asserting that assaults upon women are peculiar to his race.
    — Liz Tracey, JSTOR Daily, 21 Feb. 2025
Definition of blacken
Verb
  • Those violations included mop/wastewater dumped on the ground, larvae inside of a soda gun and a cutting board in front of a reach-in cooler soiled with food debris.
    — Garfield Hylton, The Orlando Sentinel, 27 Mar. 2025
  • Maria Ressa, a journalist and co-founder of one of the Philippines’ top news outlets, came under constant attack for her work documenting the human rights abuses that soiled Mr. Duterte’s presidency.
    — Erika Page, The Christian Science Monitor, 14 Mar. 2025
Definition of soil
Verb
  • Trade professionals and home improvement DIYers often buy heavy-duty handheld vacuums to clean job site messes like sawdust, drywall dust or wood shavings.
    — BestReviews, Chicago Tribune, 4 Mar. 2025
  • That messed me up, that messed my friends up, messed my whole family up.
    — Benjamin Royer, Los Angeles Times, 2 Mar. 2025
Definition of mess
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“Gaum.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/gaum. Accessed 14 Apr. 2025.

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