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DEBUG
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Irregular inflected forms: debugged , debugging
I. (verb)
Verb forms
Present simple: I / you / we / they debug ... he / she / it debugs
Past simple: debugged
Past participle: debugged
-ing form: debugging
Sense 1
Meaning:
Locate and correct errors in a computer program code
Example:
debug this program
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Hypernyms (to "debug" is one way to...):
correct; rectify; right (make right or correct)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Derivation:
debugger (a program that helps in locating and correcting programming errors)
