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debugged
de·bug
/
diˈbʌg
/
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dee-
buhg
]
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verb (used with object),
de·bugged,
de·bug·ging.
Informal.
1.
to detect and remove defects or errors from.
2.
to remove electronic
bugs
from (a room or building).
3.
Computers.
to detect and remove errors from (a computer program).
4.
to rid (a garden, plant, etc.) of insect pests, as by the application of a pesticide.
Origin:
1940–45;
de-
+
bug
1
Related forms
de·bug·ger,
noun
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World English Dictionary
debug
(diːˈbʌɡ)
—
vb
,
-bugs
,
-bugging
,
-bugged
1.
to locate and remove concealed microphones from (a room, etc)
2.
to locate and remove defects in (a device, system, plan, etc)
3.
to remove insects from
—
n
4.
a. something, esp a computer program, that locates and removes defects in (a device, system, etc)
b. (
as modifier
):
a debug program
[C20: from
de-
+
bug
1
]
Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 10th Edition
2009 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins
Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009
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Word Origin & History
debug
1945, of machine systems, from
de-
+
bug
"glitch, defect in a machine." Meaning "to remove a concealed microphone" is from 1964.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2010 Douglas Harper
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