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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

unjinx en · VERB

Etymology

From un- + jinx.

Meanings

  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

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
unjinxes Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic
unjinxed Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
unjinxed Tense=Past lexicographic
unjinxing Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic