Skip to main content
to debug

to debug

5 4.0
To find and fix mistakes in computer code
  • verb
  • /ˌdiːˈbʌɡ/
  • Specialized
translation icon : depurar
  • First, you can debug HTML/JS using Aptana with Firebug, set breakpoints, inspect variables, and all the rest.
  • debug code
  • debug the system
  • help debug

It's how to program, how to debug things, how to, you know, decompose programs.

Autoplay Next

Examples

  • During development, it tends to make things easier to debug if your assets are in separate files.

    Blog text (29)
  • Now I can debug my new client's website that was already damaged by other bad SEO.

    Blog text (21)
  • In order to check the issue, we will need to debug your website.

    Blog text (17)
  • I'll debug the rest when I get back Monday.

  • I was trying to debug the voice demo.

  • The production lines ground to a halt for hours while technicians tried to debug the software.

    Academic text (1996)
  • Log analysis can help optimize or debug system performance.

    Academic text (2012)
  • I will gladly donate time to debug any software, including school lessons.

    Blog text (22)
  • So use this when you're debugging your homeworks and projects.

  • Using a debugger, I was able to debug the program and eliminate the errors.

How Thorough

to rebuild
485 2.8
to debug
  • Specialized
5 4.0
to repair
365 1.0
tweak
28 3.9

Surface Forms

debug infinitive
debugged past
debugged past participle
debugging present participle
debugs third person singular

Morphology

debug = bug (transparent) = de + bug

For the computing sense, 'debug' is a clear 'remove/fix bugs' formation from 'bug' with de-.

Etymology

The word debug breaks into de- ('remove') and bug ('insect' or 'small problem'), and one popular story says engineers once found a real moth inside an early computer. So to debug a program is to 'remove' those little problems in the code.