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GLOM
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Irregular inflected forms: glommed , glomming
I. (verb)
Verb forms
Present simple: I / you / we / they glom ... he / she / it gloms
Past simple: glommed
Past participle: glommed
-ing form: glomming
Sense 1
Meaning:
Seize upon or latch onto something
Example:
The Republicans glommed onto Whitewater
Classified under:
Verbs of buying, selling, owning
Hypernyms (to "glom" is one way to...):
acquire; get (come into the possession of something concrete or abstract)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s PP
Sense 2
Meaning:
Take by theft
Example:
Someone snitched my wallet!
Synonyms:
cop; glom; hook; knock off; snitch; thieve
Classified under:
Verbs of buying, selling, owning
Hypernyms (to "glom" is one way to...):
rip; rip off; steal (take without the owner's consent)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
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