Unjinx
verb
verb ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Verb
- 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
More examples"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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