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hexed

HEKST/hɛkst/

2 meanings of hexed

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  1. 1
    verb
    Simple past and past participle of hex.

    The villagers believed the healer had hexed their well after they drove her out.

    The pitcher claimed he had been hexed by a fan waving a voodoo doll behind the dugout.

    Note

    One spelling does both jobs, the simple past (she hexed him) and the participle after have or be (he had been hexed), with the x left single. The verb belongs to the curse family of hex, not to the six-sided board space or the climber's wedge. Used as the adjective for the unlucky, it grades freely: a team can seem more hexed each week.

  2. 2
    adjective
    Under a curse, or plagued by bad luck.

    By the fifth rainout, the whole tournament seemed hexed.

    Sailors refused to board the hexed ship after two of its captains drowned.

    Similarcursed, bewitched

    Oppositelucky

hexed is a form of hex

hex, verb: To cast an evil spell on someone or something; to bewitch. Full entry

Forms
hexhexes he/she/ithexing -ing formhexed past tense, past participle
Spelling
hex → hexed: add -ed
Sound
The ending sounds like /t/.

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