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Meaning of gunk up | Babel Free

Verb CEFR B2

Definitions

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

informal, transitive

Examples

“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.”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
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See also

gunk-hole gunk-holed gunk-holing gunked gunked up gunkhole

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