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bluescreening

bluescreening is the present participle and gerund 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 bluescreening

What is bluescreening the present participle and gerund of?
Bluescreening is the present participle and gerund of bluescreen.

Words near bluescreening in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: bluescreening (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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