unblue

1. not comparableregionalhuman sciencesNot blue.

   […] a god in an unblue sky.

   1992, Susan Burmeister-Brown, Linda Davies, editors, Glimmer Train Stories

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   Soon an associational chain reaction occurs that stains blue all that has remained unblue...

   1997, University of Arizona Dept. of English, Sonora Review

   A philosopher, busily sorting the world into the blue and the unblue, tells us that some ink is blue. We look at the ink one way, and it looks blue.

   2000, Charles Travis, Unshadowed thought: representation in thought and language

   Mind you, if they fly in downstairs, they are quite happy to settle for unblue mangoes.

   2007, Barbara Blackman, Bryony Cosgrove, Judith Wright, Portrait of a friendship

present singular third person unblues · participle present unblueing · participle present unbluing · participle past unblued · past unblued

1. intransitivepoeticrareTo cease being blue.

   Blue at some distances unblues, […]

   2006, Honor Moore, Red Shoes: Poems, →ISBN, page 26

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   The boy was very hurt in the throat and his face was only now unbluing.

   2007, Barry Hannah, Yonder Stands Your Orphan, →ISBN, page 18

2. poeticraretransitiveTo cause (something) to cease being blue; to make (something) not blue.

   They look like iced teeth where a storm unblues them.

   2010, Ron Dakron, Newt, →ISBN, page 26

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   […] to clothe bodies surprised by bullets, to unblue hands frozen in ditches, […]

   1987, Indiana Review, number 10, page 24