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bluescreen

bluescreen verb: to experience a stop error and shut down to prevent damage to system hardware. Also the alternative form of blue screen.

Verb

bluescreen (third-person singular simple present bluescreens, present participle bluescreening, simple past and past participle bluescreened)

  1. (intransitive) To experience a stop error and shut down to prevent damage to system hardware.
    • His computer bluescreened because of the prerelease software.
  2. (informal, by analogy) To emotionally shut down, such as in response to a traumatic personal crisis.

Also used as

bluescreen is also the alternative form of blue screen.

Forms of bluescreen

Verb
third-person singular presentbluescreens
present participlebluescreening
past participlebluescreened
pastbluescreened
Noun
pluralbluescreens

Origin of bluescreen

From blue + screen; derived from "blue screen of death".

Questions about bluescreen

What does bluescreen mean?
Bluescreen means to experience a stop error and shut down to prevent damage to system hardware.
What part of speech is bluescreen?
Bluescreen is a verb.
What is the past tense of bluescreen?
The past tense of bluescreen is bluescreened.

Words near bluescreen in the dictionary

  1. blues scale
  2. blues scales
  3. blues-rock
  4. blueschist
  5. blueschists
  6. bluescreen
  7. bluescreened
  8. bluescreening
  9. bluescreens
  10. bluesey
  11. blueshead

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