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bluescreened

bluescreened is the simple past and past participle of bluescreen.

Meaning of bluescreen

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.

Questions about bluescreened

What is bluescreened the simple past and past participle of?
Bluescreened is the simple past and past participle of bluescreen.

Words near bluescreened in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: bluescreened (page history and authors); bluescreen (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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