unjinx

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verb

To remove a jinx or curse from.

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Meanings

verbunjinx (third-person singular simple present unjinxes, present participle unjinxing, simple past and past participle unjinxed)

present singular third person unjinxes · participle present unjinxing · participle past unjinxed · past unjinxed

  1. transitiveTo 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

Origin

From un- + jinx.

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APA

unjinx. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unjinx

MLA

“unjinx.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unjinx. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “unjinx,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unjinx.

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