Meanings
- not comparableServing to kill or repel bugs (insects).
Use it with an antibug candle and it wards off pests while it lights your patio.
1972, The Popular Science Monthly2 more examples
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 knowReplace your outdoor porch lights with antibug lights, which have a special yellow coating...
2009, Terra Wellington, The Mom's Guide to Growing Your Family GreenSynonyms: antiinsect
- not comparableServing to counteract bugs (audio or audiovisual surveillance devices).
antibug measures
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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 hideAlso, 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 SupplementBreaking antibug commercial phones was no problem for the intercepting devices of the government.
1998, Robert Ludlum, The Matarese Countdown
Synonyms & antonyms
adjectiveServing to kill or repel bugs (insects).
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antibug. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/antibug
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