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BSOD

BSOD is the initialism of blue screen of death.

BSOD is the initialism of black screen of death.

Verb

BSOD (third-person singular simple present BSODs, present participle BSODing, simple past and past participle BSODed or BSOD'd)

  1. To fail critically and display a blue screen of death.
  2. (informal, by analogy) To emotionally shut down, such as in response to a traumatic personal crisis.

Meaning of blue screen of death

Noun

blue screen of death (plural blue screens of death)

  1. (informal) An error screen displayed by some operating systems, especially Microsoft Windows, after encountering an unrecoverable error which causes the system to shut down.
    • The only remaining problem is--NT still locks up the machine at exactly the same point. The only difference is that I don't get the blue screen of death--NT just freezes.1993 October 10, tay...@saturn.brooks.af.mil, “NT Patch--doesn't fix Services for Macintosh”, in comp.os.ms-windows.nt.setup (Usenet)

Meaning of black screen of death

Noun

black screen of death (plural black screens of death)

  1. A critical system error encountered by computer operating systems, characterized by the display of a completely black screen and the cessation of device functionality.

Noun capitalized: BSoD

BSoD (plural BSoDs)

  1. (alternative) Alternative form of BSOD.

Forms of BSOD

Noun
pluralBSODs
alternative formblue screen
pluralBSoDs
Verb
third-person singular presentBSODs
present participleBSODing
past participleBSODed
pastBSODed
past participleBSOD'd
pastBSOD'd

Questions about BSOD

What does BSOD mean?
BSOD means to fail critically and display a blue screen of death.
What is BSOD the initialism of?
BSOD is the initialism of blue screen of death.
What part of speech is BSOD?
BSOD can be a verb or a noun.
What is the past tense of BSOD?
The past tense of BSOD is BSODed.

Words near BSOD in the dictionary

  1. bsmt.
  2. bsmts
  3. bsmts.
  4. BSN
  5. BSO
  6. BSOD
  7. BSOD'd
  8. BSODed
  9. BSODing
  10. BSODs
  11. BSON

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: BSOD (page history and authors); BSoD (page history and authors); blue screen of death (page history and authors); black screen of death (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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