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gunk up

gunk up verb: to soil or dirty; to mess up; to clog.

Verb

gunk up (third-person singular simple present gunks up, present participle gunking up, simple past and past participle gunked up)

  1. (informal, transitive) To soil or dirty; to mess up; to clog.
    • I don't want to gunk up my new shoes, so I'll wear the old ones in the garden.
    • The sandpaper strips off the old green paint, but it gunks up quickly.
    Synonyms:
    befoul, gunk, foul, jam, assoil, beclart, bedaub, bedirty, imbrue (especially with blood), bedizen

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Forms of gunk up

third-person singular presentgunks up
present participlegunking up
past participlegunked up
pastgunked up

Questions about gunk up

What does gunk up mean?
Gunk up means to soil or dirty; to mess up; to clog.
What part of speech is gunk up?
Gunk up is a verb.
What is the past tense of gunk up?
The past tense of gunk up is gunked up.

Words near gunk up in the dictionary

  1. Gunjan
  2. gunjible
  3. gunjibles
  4. gunjie
  5. gunk
  6. gunk up
  7. gunk-hole
  8. gunk-holed
  9. gunk-holes
  10. gunk-holing
  11. gunkanmaki

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