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unbluing

unbluing is the present participle and gerund of unblue.

Meaning of unblue

Verb

unblue (third-person singular simple present unblues, present participle unblueing or unbluing, simple past and past participle unblued)

  1. (intransitive, poetic, rare) To cease being blue.
    • Blue at some distances unblues, […]2006, Honor Moore, Red Shoes: Poems, →ISBN, page 26
  2. (poetic, rare, transitive) To cause (something) to cease being blue; to make (something) not blue.
    • […] to clothe bodies surprised by bullets, to unblue hands frozen in ditches, […]1987, Indiana Review, number 10, page 24

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Questions about unbluing

What is unbluing the present participle and gerund of?
Unbluing is the present participle and gerund of unblue.

Words near unbluing in the dictionary

  1. unblued
  2. unblueing
  3. unblues
  4. unbluffable
  5. unbluffed
  6. unbluing
  7. unblundered
  8. unblundering
  9. unblunted
  10. unblur
  11. unblurred

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Adapted from Wiktionary: unbluing (page history and authors); unblue (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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