unjinx

English

Etymology

un- +‎ jinx

Verb

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

1. (transitive) To remove a jinx or curse from.
   • 2007 April 29, Lisa Carver, “Desperado Housewife”, in New York Times‎^[1]:

     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.”