unjinx en · VERB
Etymology
From un- + jinx.
Meanings
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(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
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| unjinxes | Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres | lexicographic | |
| unjinxed | Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part | lexicographic | |
| unjinxed | Tense=Past | lexicographic | |
| unjinxing | Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part | lexicographic |