Meaning

1 senses

  1. To soil or make dirty.

Examples

3 sentences

  1. My eyes are full of eye gunk.

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  2. The pool tile was disgusting looking, being full of gunk.

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  3. The older I get, the more regularly I wake up with gunk in the corners of my eyelids.

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Origin

Apparently from Gunk, trademark name for a liquid soap; perhaps taken as a blend of grime

Apparently from Gunk, trademark name for a liquid soap; perhaps taken as a blend of grime + funk.

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Forms

gunks, gunking, gunked, gunked
Base formgunk · to gunk
3rd person singulargunks
Present participlegunking
Past simplegunked
Past participlegunked

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theygunk
he, she, itgunks

Past simpleLesson

all personsgunked

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave gunked
he, she, ithas gunked

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill gunk

Synonyms

51 synonyms
blurB2contaminateB2dirtyA1fileB2foulB2soilB1spotB2stainB2befoulmuckslurassoilbeclartbedaub

Lessons for this word

3 lessons

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
gunA2gunfightgunfiregunmangunnergunpointgunpowder
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