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antibug

antibug adjective: serving to kill or repel bugs (insects).

Adjective

antibug (not comparable)

  1. Serving to kill or repel bugs (insects).
    • The vegetables when they started to grow in this plot seemed pretty sickly until one day a group of medical students doused them with antibug powder...1961, Felix Greene, Awakened China: the country Americans don't know
    • Use it with an antibug candle and it wards off pests while it lights your patio.1972, The Popular Science Monthly
    Synonyms:
    antiinsect
  2. Serving to counteract bugs (audio or audiovisual surveillance devices).
    • antibug measures
    • The infinity mike and the harmonica bug have the great advantage of being undetectable by an antibug detector.1975, Alan LeMond, Ron Fry, No place to hide

Examples of antibug in a sentence

  • Replace your outdoor porch lights with antibug lights, which have a special yellow coating...2009, Terra Wellington, The Mom's Guide to Growing Your Family Green:
  • Also, bugs are subject to malfunction and discovery, especially as sophisticated antibug devices have been developed.1991, John C Klotter, Jacqueline R Kanovitz, Constitutional Law, 1992 Supplement:
  • Breaking antibug commercial phones was no problem for the intercepting devices of the government.1998, Robert Ludlum, The Matarese Countdown:

Synonyms of antibug

Origin of antibug

From anti- + bug.

Questions about antibug

What does antibug mean?
Antibug means serving to kill or repel bugs (insects).
How do you use antibug in a sentence?
Replace your outdoor porch lights with antibug lights, which have a special yellow coating...
What part of speech is antibug?
Antibug is an adjective.

Words near antibug in the dictionary

  1. antibubble
  2. antibubbles
  3. antibubonic
  4. antibudget
  5. antibuffalo
  6. antibug
  7. antibuggery
  8. antibugging
  9. antibulimic
  10. antibullet
  11. antibullfight

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