"gunk up" meaning in English

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Verb

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
    Sense id: en-gunk_up-en-verb-vES3wWpP Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English phrasal verbs with particle (up)

Inflected forms

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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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          "text": "I don't want to gunk up my new shoes, so I'll wear the old ones in the garden."
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          "text": "The sandpaper strips off the old green paint, but it gunks up quickly."
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        "(informal, transitive) To soil or dirty; to mess up; to clog."
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