"gunk up" meaning in All languages combined

See gunk up on Wiktionary

Verb [English]

Forms: gunked up [present, singular, third-person], gunking up [participle, present], gunked up [participle, past], gunked up [past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|gunk<gunked> up}} gunk up (third-person singular simple present gunked up, present participle gunking up, simple past and past participle gunked up)
  1. (informal, transitive) To soil or dirty; to mess up; to clog. Tags: informal, transitive

Inflected forms

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    {
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        {
          "text": "I don't want to gunk up my new shoes, so I'll wear the old ones in the garden.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "text": "The sandpaper strips off the old green paint, but it gunks up quickly.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2012, The Onion Book of Known Knowledge, page 102:",
          "text": "[Your intake valve] is looking pretty gunked up. No wonder you're not getting any juice.",
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        }
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      "links": [
        [
          "soil",
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        ],
        [
          "mess up",
          "mess up"
        ],
        [
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          "clog"
        ]
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        "(informal, transitive) To soil or dirty; to mess up; to clog."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "informal",
        "transitive"
      ]
    }
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        "present"
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      "form": "gunked up",
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    },
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      "form": "gunked up",
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          "type": "example"
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          "text": "[Your intake valve] is looking pretty gunked up. No wonder you're not getting any juice.",
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          "mess up",
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