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Jinx

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Noun

1. jinx, jonah

a person believed to bring bad luck to those around him

2. curse, hex, jinx, whammy

an evil spell

Example Sentences:
'a witch put a curse on his whole family'
'he put the whammy on me'

Verb

3. bewitch, enchant, glamour, hex, jinx, witch

cast a spell over someone or something; put a hex on someone or something

4. jinx

foredoom to failure

Example Sentences:
'This project is jinxed!'

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Jinx

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noun
1. 
an unlucky or malevolent force, person, or thing
verb
2. (transitive)
to be or put a jinx on

Collins English Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers

Jinx

see synonyms of jinx
noun
1. 
a person or thing believed to bring bad luck
2. 
a spell or period of bad luck
verb transitive
3. 
to bring bad luck to

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Jinx

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n.
1. A person or thing that is believed to bring bad luck.
2. A condition or period of bad luck that appears to have been caused by a specific person or thing.
tr.v. jinxed, jinx·ing, jinx·es
To bring bad luck to.

The American Heritage ® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition copyright ©2018 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

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