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unjinx

unjinx verb: to remove a jinx or curse from.

Verb

unjinx (third-person singular simple present unjinxes, present participle unjinxing, simple past and past participle unjinxed)

  1. (transitive) To remove a jinx or curse from.
    • I guess I thought that by being haphazard and isolated and gloomy, by doing the wedding ceremony all wrong, I was unjinxing the marriage, or at least freeing it up and freeing myself from becoming “a married woman.”2007 April 29, Lisa Carver, “Desperado Housewife”, in New York Times

Forms of unjinx

third-person singular presentunjinxes
present participleunjinxing
past participleunjinxed
pastunjinxed

Origin of unjinx

From un- + jinx.

Questions about unjinx

What does unjinx mean?
Unjinx means to remove a jinx or curse from.
What part of speech is unjinx?
Unjinx is a verb.
What is the past tense of unjinx?
The past tense of unjinx is unjinxed.

Words near unjinx in the dictionary

  1. unjewelling
  2. unjewels
  3. unjewish
  4. unjilted
  5. unjingoistic
  6. unjinx
  7. unjinxable
  8. unjinxed
  9. unjinxes
  10. unjinxing
  11. unjittery

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