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noun

ˈvü-(ˌ)dü How to pronounce voodoo (audio)
Definition of voodoonext
as in sorcerer
a person skilled in using supernatural forces found a voodoo who was willing to put a hex on the man who had jilted her

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verb

as in to curse

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Recent Examples of voodoo
Noun
Morgan responded with a slap and brush off of the voodoo. — Ryan Gaydos, FOXNews.com, 28 June 2026 Momsen won't answer if she's ever owned a voodoo doll. — Ralphie Aversa, USA Today, 26 June 2026
Verb
More on culture An Eagles fan brought a Patrick Mahomes voodoo doll to the Super Bowl. — Emily Bazelon, New York Times, 13 Feb. 2025 Despite his clearly enjoying killing people for personal reasons, the movie’s Kraven seems to think of himself as a kind of antihero, which voodoo practitioner Calypso (Ariana DeBose) rightfully clocks as a red flag. — Charles Pulliam-Moore, The Verge, 20 June 2023 See All Example Sentences for voodoo
Recent Examples of Synonyms for voodoo
  1. sorcerer
  2. curse
  3. magician
  4. jinx
  5. mage
  6. possess
  7. wizard
  8. charm
Noun
  • The woods could be hiding places of witches and sorcerers, disguised as the old and feeble, but capable of summoning wonder and terrors, charms as well as curses.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 30 July 2026
  • The sequence featuring Circe, the sorcerer who turns Odysseus’s men into pigs, might be the most disturbing of them all, not so much for what’s shown as for what’s implied, as the men’s body-horror-like transformations occur in tight shots.
    — Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 16 July 2026
Definition of sorcerer
Verb
  • Another example involves an Old Testament story, in which Israelites traveled toward the Promised Land through Moabite territory, and the king of Moab called on Balaam, a diviner, to curse them, D'Souza said.
    — Andrea Margolis, FOXNews.com, 9 Aug. 2026
  • Video that the teen lobster diver's family shared with ABC Miami affiliate WSVN allegedly shows Simpson swimming away from the third lung and back to the Contender vessel as people on Del Sol's boat began yelling and cursing at him.
    — Bill Hutchinson, ABC News, 7 Aug. 2026
Definition of curse
Noun
  • Whether magicians, thieves, or just fed up citizens, somebody has made an entire city’s worth of ALPRs vanish in the night.
    — Joe Wilkins, Futurism, 5 Aug. 2026
  • Elizebeth Berkley poses with America’s Got Talent winner and magician Mat Franco at the Linq Hotel after his show in Las Vegas on July 21.
    — Stephanie Sengwe, PEOPLE, 29 July 2026
Definition of magician
Verb
  • Not to jinx anything, but in spite of all the hoopla (or perhaps because of it), Stone and Silvia separated six months later and were divorced by 1976.
    — Dominic Patten, Deadline, 24 June 2026
  • Footballers tend to be superstitious, and Arsenal’s players have been wary of jinxing a potential title.
    — James McNicholas, New York Times, 19 May 2026
Definition of jinx
Noun
  • This young adult fantasy follows a 16-year-old who discovers a magical attack and realizes this new world of demons and mages has a connection to her mother’s death.
    — Clare Mulroy, USA Today, 2 July 2026
  • Or this one, where the mage Nic Cage totes Herman Hesse’s Siddhartha.
    — Brittany Allen, Literary Hub, 25 June 2026
Definition of mage
Verb
  • Instead, that process was based on a predictable pattern, allowing hackers who possessed a sample seed phrase to use trial-and-error to guess others—and clean out Coldcard owners in the process.
    — Jeff John Roberts, Fortune, 10 Aug. 2026
  • The Hugging Face article outlines what capabilities these organizations need to possess.
    — Nisha Talagala, Forbes.com, 10 Aug. 2026
Definition of possess
Noun
  • Hoult’s Gilderoy Lockhart a notoriously vain, boastful and fame-obsessed wizard well versed in Memory Charms who is recruited by Dumbledore as Professor of Defence Against the Dark Arts at Hogwarts.
    — Nellie Andreeva, Deadline, 11 Aug. 2026
  • But then they’re interrupted by Wil Wheaton, who’s a wizard in this universe.
    — Michael Schneider, Variety, 7 Aug. 2026
Definition of wizard
Verb
  • And as always, Reacher’s bone-dry and hyper-literal wit continues to charm in this new adventure from showrunner Nick Santora (this time adapting author Lee Child’s Gone Tomorrow).
    — James Hibberd, HollywoodReporter, 11 Aug. 2026
  • Artists and engineers bunked in, the artist’s turtle Rocky charmed visitors, and Rauschenberg created some key works in his studio there.
    — Brian Boucher, ARTnews.com, 7 Aug. 2026
Definition of charm

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