Definition of "debug" []

• To remove a hidden electronic device, such as a microphone, from: debug a conference room. (verb-transitive)
• To make (a hidden microphone, for example) ineffective. (verb-transitive)
• To search for and eliminate malfunctioning elements or errors in: debug a spacecraft before launch; debug a computer program. (verb-transitive)
• To remove insects from, as with a pesticide. (verb-transitive)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "If you want to see some debug information from the fetchexec process, uncomment the line $debug = 1; in file config. inc."
• "She was instrumental in developing COBOL and takes credit for inventing the word "debug" as applied to computers - she says because a moth disabled a computer she was working on during WWII, and she remarked that the computer needed "debugging.""
• "The video showed Carrier IQ recording everything Eckhart entered into his phone, storing the data in what's known as a debug log."