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unjinxing

unjinxing is the present participle and gerund of unjinx.

Meaning of unjinx

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

Questions about unjinxing

What is unjinxing the present participle and gerund of?
Unjinxing is the present participle and gerund of unjinx.

Words near unjinxing in the dictionary

  1. unjingoistic
  2. unjinx
  3. unjinxable
  4. unjinxed
  5. unjinxes
  6. unjinxing
  7. unjittery
  8. unjocose
  9. unjocular
  10. unjocularly
  11. unjocund

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Adapted from Wiktionary: unjinxing (page history and authors); unjinx (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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