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debug

 verb
     
Related topics: Crime and Law, Computers
de‧bug past tense and past participle debugged, present participle debugging [transitive]
1TDTD to remove the bugs (=mistakes) from a computer program [↪ disinfect]
2SC to remove secret listening equipment from a place
—debugging noun [uncountable]
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