Unjinx

verb

verb ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Verb
  1. 1
    To remove a jinx or curse from. transitive

    "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.”"

Example

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"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.”"

Etymology

From un- + jinx.

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