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Meanings of hexed in English

(Usually used colloquially) causing or accompanied by misfortune.

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Examples for "jinxed"
1
I mean, there always seems to be something, but I don't feel jinxed.
The Guardian
2
And a swamp of thaumaturgically jinxed mud that degenerates his boots into worms.
Iron Council
3
The southern tip of Manhattan has always been jinxed as a place of habitation.
The new yorker
4
Now that I'm alone, with no purpose left but saving myself, everything is jinxed.
Axiomatic
5
James had the distinct impression that Willow had jinxed Fiera with a carefully concealed wand.
James Potter and the Morrigan Web
Usage of hexed in English
1
The room had been hexed by an imp to dampen any magic.
Darkness revealed
2
Behind them, the New Crobuzon militiaman spasmed and raved in his hexed sickness.
Iron Council
3
Ori was sent to steal rockmilk and hexed liquors from laboratories.
Iron Council
4
Look for the one with the big yellow 'Z' hexed onto its side.
James Potter and the Vault of Destinies
5
And some evil, handsome old bloke hexed all the streetlights and spotlights out.
Skin Game
6
Purely from petty malice, I waved a hand and hexed his radio, or phone.
Turn coat
7
It must have hexed up the bomb's timer or receiver.
White night
8
Every time I looked at it, I felt a little hexed, a little frightened.
A Place so Foreign
9
It teased and cartwheeled, as if begging to be hexed.
James Potter and the Curse of the Gatekeeper
10
The same light slipped off the three hexed intruders like thin oil off a blade.
Perdido Street Station
11
And then she hexed one of the Jet Skis.
Cold Days
12
It was as if some wizard had hexed him, sapping the heat from his loins.
Oracle's Queen
13
He was melted with disgust, standing in his whisper-hexed stillness, his hands by his side.
Iron Council
14
Men are speechless from the cheap drugs and hexed moonshine they have concocted in stills.
Iron Council
15
Grevane must have hexed this entire portion of the city power grid when the attack began.
Dead beat
16
Those prisoners with boilers hexed to them are issued enough culm and low-grade coke to work.
Iron Council
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