Synonyms of the word

bug

• n. (colloquial) Any insect, arachnid, myriapod or entognath.
• n. An insect of the order Hemiptera (the "true bugs").
• n. (colloquial) Any insect, arachnid, or other terrestrial arthropod that is a pest.
• n. Various species of marine or freshwater crustaceans; e.g. a Morton Bay bug, mudbug.
• n. (chiefly computing) A problem that needs fixing.
• n. A contagious illness; a bacterium or virus causing it.
• n. An enthusiasm for something; an obsession.
• n. An electronic intercept device.
• n. A small and and usually invisible file (traditionally a single-pixel image) on a World Wide Web page,…
• n. (broadcasting) A small, usually transparent or translucent image placed in a corner of a television program…
• n. (aviation) A manually positioned marker in flight instruments.
• n. A semi-automated telegraph key.
• n. (obsolete) A bugbear; anything that terrifies.
• n. (chiefly LGBT, "the bug") HIV.
• n. (poker) A limited form of wild card in some variants of poker.
• n. (paleontology, slang) A trilobite.
• v. (informal, transitive) To annoy.
• v. (transitive) To install an electronic listening device or devices in.

badger

• n. A common name for any mammal of three subfamilies, which belong to the family Mustelidae: Melinae (Eurasian…
• n. A native or resident of the American state, Wisconsin.
• n. (obsolete) A brush made of badger hair.
• n. (in the plural, obsolete, vulgar, cant) A crew of desperate villains who robbed near rivers, into which…
• v. to pester, to annoy persistently.
• v. (Britain, informal) To pass gas; to fart.
• n. (obsolete) An itinerant licensed dealer in commodities used for food; a hawker; a huckster; -- formerly…

bedevil

• v. To harass or cause trouble for; to plague.
• v. To perplex or bewilder.

beleaguer

• v. To besiege; to surround with troops.
• v. To vex, harass, or beset.

crucify

• v. To execute (a person) by nailing to a cross.
• v. To punish or otherwise express extreme anger at, especially as a scapegoat or target of outrage.
• v. (informal) To thoroughly beat at a sport or game.

defect

• n. A fault or malfunction.
• n. The quantity or amount by which anything falls short.
• n. (mathematics) A part by which a figure or quantity is wanting or deficient.
• v. (intransitive) To abandon or turn against; to cease or change one's loyalty, especially from a military…
• v. (military) To desert one's army, to flee from combat.
• v. (military) To join the enemy army.
• v. (law) To flee one's country and seek asylum.

dun

• n. A brownish grey colour.
• adj. Of a brownish grey colour.
• n. (countable) A collector of debts.
• n. An urgent request or demand of payment.
• v. (transitive) To ask or beset a debtor for payment.
• v. (transitive) To harass by continually repeating e.g. a request.
• n. (countable) A newly hatched, immature mayfly; a mayfly subimago.
• n. (countable, fishing) A fly made to resemble the mayfly subimago.
• n. An ancient or medieval fortification; especially a hill-fort in Scotland or Ireland.
• n. (archeology) A structure in the Orkney or Shetland islands or in Scotland consisting of a roundhouse surrounded…
• v. (nonstandard, informal) Eye dialect spelling of done: past participle of do.
• v. (nonstandard, informal) Eye dialect spelling of don't: Contraction of do + not.
• v. (transitive, dated) To cure, as codfish, by laying them, after salting, in a pile in a dark place, covered…
• n. A mound or small hill.
• interj. (humorous) Imitating suspenseful music.

eavesdrop

• v. To hear a conversation one is not intended to hear; to listen in.
• n. The dripping of rain from the eaves of a house.
• n. The space around a house on which such water drips.
• n. A concealed aperture through which an occupant of a building can surreptitiously listen to people talking…
• n. The act of intentionally hearing a conversation not intended to be heard.

fault

• n. A defect; something that detracts from perfection.
• n. A mistake or error.
• n. A weakness of character; a failing.
• n. A minor offense.
• n. Blame; the responsibility for a mistake.
• n. (seismology) A fracture in a rock formation causing a discontinuity.
• n. (mining) In coal seams, coal rendered worthless by impurities in the seam.
• n. (tennis) An illegal serve.
• n. (electrical) An abnormal connection in a circuit.
• n. (obsolete) want; lack.
• n. (hunting) A lost scent; act of losing the scent.
• v. (transitive) To criticize, blame or find fault with something or someone.
• v. (intransitive, geology) To fracture.
• v. (intransitive) To commit a mistake or error.
• v. (intransitive, computing) To undergo a page fault.

flaw

• n. (obsolete) A flake, fragment, or shiver.
• n. (obsolete) A thin cake, as of ice.
• n. A crack or breach, a gap or fissure; a defect of continuity or cohesion.
• n. A defect, fault, or imperfection, especially one that is hidden.
• n. (law) A defect or error in a contract or other document which may make the document invalid or ineffective.
• v. (transitive) To add a flaw to, to make imperfect or defective.
• v. (intransitive) To become imperfect or defective.
• n. A sudden burst or gust of wind of short duration.
• n. A storm of short duration.
• n. A sudden burst of noise and disorder; a tumult; uproar; a quarrel.

frustrate

• v. (transitive) To disappoint or defeat; to vex by depriving of something expected or desired.
• v. (transitive) To hinder or thwart.
• v. (transitive) To cause stress or panic.
• adj. vain; ineffectual; useless; nugatory.

germ

• n. (biology) The small mass of cells from which a new organism develops; a seed, bud or spore.
• n. A pathogenic microorganism.
• n. The embryo of a seed, especially of a seed used as a cereal or grain. See Wikipedia article on cereal…
• n. (figuratively) The origin of an idea or project.
• n. (mathematics) An equivalence class that includes a specified function defined in an open neighborhood.
• v. To germinate.
• v. (slang) To grow, as if parasitic.

glitch

• n. A problem affecting function; a bug; an imperfection; a quirk.
• n. (video games) A bug or an exploit.
• n. (music) A genre of experimental electronic music of the 1990s, characterized by a deliberate use of sonic…
• n. (engineering) A signal which does not remain active for a full clock period.
• v. To experience an intermittent, unexpected, malfunction.
• v. (video games) To perform an exploit or recreate a bug while playing a video game.

hemipteran

• adj. Of or pertaining to the Hemiptera order; hemipterous.
• n. A hemipter.

hemipteron

• n. Alternative form of hemipteran.

insect

• n. An arthropod in the class Insecta, characterized by six legs, up to four wings, and a chitinous exoskeleton.
• n. (colloquial) Any small arthropod similar to an insect including spiders, centipedes, millipedes, etc.
• n. (derogatory) A contemptible or powerless person.

intercept

• n. An interception of a radio broadcast or a telephone call.
• n. An interception of a missile.
• n. (algebraic geometry) The coordinate of the point at which a curve intersects an axis.
• n. (marketing) A form of market research where consumers are intercepted and interviewed in a retail store…
• v. (transitive) To stop, deflect or divert (something in progress or motion).
• v. (transitive, sports) To gain possession of (the ball) in a ball game.

micro-organism

• n. Alternative spelling of microorganism.

microbe

• n. (microbiology) Any microorganism, but especially a harmful bacterium.

microorganism

• n. (microbiology) An organism that is too small to be seen by the unaided eye, especially a single-celled…

microphone

• n. A device (transducer) used to convert sound waves into a varying electric current; normally fed into an…
• v. (transitive) To put one or more microphones on or in.

mike

• n. (informal) A microphone.
• v. To microphone; to place one or more microphones (mikes) on.
• v. To measure using a micrometer.

pester

• v. (transitive) To bother, harass, or annoy persistently.

rag

• n. (in the plural) Tattered clothes.
• n. A piece of old cloth; a tattered piece of cloth; a shred, a tatter.
• n. A shabby, beggarly fellow; a ragamuffin.
• n. A ragged edge in metalworking.
• n. (nautical, slang) A sail, or any piece of canvas.
• n. (slang, pejorative) A newspaper, magazine.
• n. (poker) A poor, low-ranking kicker.
• v. (intransitive) To become tattered.
• n. A coarse kind of rock, somewhat cellular in texture; ragstone.
• v. To break (ore) into lumps for sorting.
• v. To cut or dress roughly, as a grindstone.
• v. To scold or rail at; to rate; to tease; to torment; to banter.
• v. (Britain slang) To drive a car or another vehicle in a hard, fast or unsympathetic manner.
• v. To tease or torment, especially at a university; to bully, to haze.
• v. (music, obsolete) To add syncopation (to a tune) and thereby make it appropriate for a ragtime song.
• n. (dated) A prank or practical joke.
• n. (Britain, Ireland) A society run by university students for the purpose of charitable fundraising.
• n. (obsolete, US) An informal dance party featuring music played by African-American string bands.
• n. A ragtime song, dance or piece of music.
• v. (transitive, informal) To play or compose (a piece, melody, etc.) in syncopated time.
• v. (intransitive, informal) To dance to ragtime music.

tap

• n. A tapering cylindrical pin or peg used to stop the vent in a cask; a spigot.
• n. A device used to dispense liquids.
• n. Liquor drawn through a tap; hence, a certain kind or quality of liquor.
• n. A place where liquor is drawn for drinking; a taproom; a bar.
• n. (mechanics) A device used to cut an internal screw thread. (External screw threads are cut with a die…
• n. A connection made to an electrical or fluid conductor without breaking it.
• n. An interception of communication by authority.
• v. To furnish with taps.
• v. To draw off liquid from a vessel.
• v. To deplete, especially of a liquid via a tap; to tap out.
• v. To place a listening or recording device on a telephone or wired connection.
• v. To intercept a communication without authority.
• v. (mechanical) To cut an internal screw thread.
• v. (card games, board games) To turn or flip a card or playing piece to remind players that it has already…
• n. Device used to listen in secretly on telephone calls.
• v. To strike lightly.
• v. To touch one's finger, foot, or other body parts on a surface (usually) repeatedly.
• v. To make a sharp noise.
• v. To designate for some duty or for membership, as in 'a tap on the shoulder'.
• v. (slang, transitive) To have sexual intercourse with.
• v. (combat sports) To submit to an opponent by tapping one's hand repeatedly.
• v. (combat sports, transitive) To force (an opponent) to submit.
• v. To put a new sole or heel on.
• n. A gentle or slight blow; a light rap; a pat.
• n. tap dance.
• n. (computing) The act of touching a touch screen.
• n. A piece of leather fastened upon the bottom of a boot or shoe in repairing or renewing the sole or heel;…
• n. (military) A signal, by drum or trumpet, for extinguishing all lights in soldiers' quarters and retiring…
• n. (phonetics) A consonant sound made by a single muscle contraction, such as the sound [ɾ] in the standard…

tease

• v. To separate the fibres of a fibrous material.
• v. To comb (originally with teasels) so that the fibres all lie in one direction.
• v. To back-comb.
• v. (transitive) To poke fun at.
• v. (transitive) To provoke or disturb; to annoy.
• v. (transitive) To entice, to tempt.
• v. (transitive, informal) To show as forthcoming, in the manner of a teaser.
• n. One who teases.
• n. A single act of teasing.
• n. A cock tease; an exotic dancer; a stripper.

torment

• n. (obsolete) A catapult or other kind of war-engine.
• n. Torture, originally as inflicted by an instrument of torture.
• n. Any extreme pain, anguish or misery, either physical or mental.
• v. (transitive) To cause severe suffering to (stronger than to vex but weaker than to torture.).

wiretap

• n. A concealed device connected to a telephone or other communications system that allows a third party to…
• n. The act of installing such a device.
• v. To install or to use such a device.