gunk up

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gunk up

verb gunks up · gunking up · gunked up

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

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@misc{gunk_up_2026,
  title = {gunk up},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/gunk%20up},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}