hex
verb (used with object)
to bewitch; practice witchcraft on.
Example Sentences
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But a tiny subset of people also develop less common symptoms, ones that can sound like hexes from a children’s story: hairy tongues, purple toes, welts that sprout on their faces.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 17, 2022
It was difficult to prove beyond the shadow of a doubt something as ephemeral as the bewitching of a cow or any of the other supposed hexes Parsons had been accused of.
From Slate ● Oct. 31, 2022
In the comics, Wanda’s powers allow her to control probability via her hexes — the same word for her powers is also the shape of the fictional city she’s made for herself, yes.
From The Verge ● Feb. 26, 2021
Side effects include nausea, dizziness, numbness, dumbness, Dementias, deletions, leeches, letches, hexes, hoaxes, hocus-pocuses, And, if there is justice, spiritual, moral, federal, state, & local charges.
From The New Yorker ● Dec. 2, 2019
But since a woman combing her hair hexes beginnings, my aunt rarely found an occasion to look her best.
From "The Woman Warrior" by Maxine Hong Kingston
