hex
verb (used with object)
to bewitch; practice witchcraft on.
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
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Pont-Saint-Esprit speculated that the village idiot had hexed Baker Briand's flour, that the flour had been packed in fertilizer sacks, that rats in the grain elevator had contaminated the flour.
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