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gunked up

gunked up is the simple past and past participle of gunk up.

Meaning of gunk up

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.
    Synonyms:
    befoul, gunk, foul, jam, assoil, beclart, bedaub, bedirty, imbrue (especially with blood), bedizen

Questions about gunked up

What is gunked up the simple past and past participle of?
Gunked up is the simple past and past participle of gunk up.

Words near gunked up in the dictionary

  1. gunk-holes
  2. gunk-holing
  3. gunkanmaki
  4. gunkata
  5. gunked
  6. gunked up
  7. gunkeeper
  8. gunkeepers
  9. Gunkel
  10. Gunkels
  11. gunkhole

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