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bug-ridden

bug-ridden adjective: full of defects.

Adjective

bug-ridden (comparative more bug-ridden, superlative most bug-ridden)

  1. Full of defects.
    • Bug-ridden codes cannot be trusted to yield good science, or even safe science. So beware! Quirky codes are really bug-ridden codes, except that the bugs are alive and well and you are the intended victims.2005, Stan Openshaw, Ian Turton, High Performance Computing and the Art of Parallel Programming […] , Routledge, →ISBN
  2. Full of insects.
    • In the capital of the Reich, in the city of the “illustrious Führer” of all places, in the largest prison in Germany, everything was filthy, bug-ridden, and filled with lice.2000, Hester Baer, transl., The Blessed Abyss: Inmate #6582 in Ravensbrück Concentration Camp for Women, Wayne State University Press, translation of original by Nanda Herbermann, →ISBN, page 106

Forms of bug-ridden

comparativemore bug-ridden
superlativemost bug-ridden

Origin of bug-ridden

From bug + -ridden.

Questions about bug-ridden

What does bug-ridden mean?
Bug-ridden means full of defects.
What part of speech is bug-ridden?
Bug-ridden is an adjective.

Words near bug-ridden in the dictionary

  1. bug-men
  2. bug-on-a-stick
  3. bug-out bag
  4. bug-out bags
  5. bug-proof
  6. bug-ridden
  7. bug-spray
  8. bug-sprayed
  9. bug-spraying
  10. bug-sprays
  11. bug-walk

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