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dehex

verb

Etymology

From de- + hex.

  1. derived from hexen
  2. borrowed from hexe — “to practice witchcraft”
  3. prefixed as dehex — “de + hex”

Definitions

  1. To remove a hex (a spell, especially an evil spell).

    • Believing that the suspect may have consulted a voodoo doctor prior to the exam, the examiner took a doll from his desk and proceeded to dehex the suspect.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for dehex. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA