Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

gunk up

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.45 in modern English

Syllables: gunk up
IPA

13

Scrabble Score

6

Letters

1

Syllables

5

Unique Chars

Meaning

verb

To soil or dirty; to mess up; to clog.

Informal; Transitive verb

Example Sentences

"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."
"[Your intake valve] is looking pretty gunked up. No wonder you're not getting any juice."

Usage

Inflected Forms

gunks up (present, singular) gunking up (participle, present) gunked up (participle, past) gunked up (past)

Synonyms

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

Questions

What does gunk up mean?: To soil or dirty; to mess up; to clog.

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