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Bugging

/ˈbʌɡɪŋ/

To annoy.

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📖 Definitions of "Bugging"

verb

1
To annoy.
"Don’t bug me, I’m busy!"
2
To install an electronic listening device or devices in.
"We need to know what’s going on. We’ll bug his house."

noun

1
Electronic surveillance.

💡 Words with a Similar Meaning to "Bugging"

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Word	Definition
wired	Equipped with wires, so as to connect to a power source or to other electric or electronic equipment; connected by wires.
wiretappingnoun	The installation or monitoring of wiretaps.
wiretapnoun	A connection installed on a telephone line or other communications system in order to allow a third party to conduct covert surveillance of conversations.
eavesdroppingnoun	Listening secretly to the private conversations of others.
lookverb	To try to see, to pay attention to with one’s eyes.
listeningnoun	Skill or ability of perceiving spoken language.
listenverb	(intransitive except in archaic usage) To use one's sense of hearing and auditory cognition in an intentional way; to make deliberate use of one's ears; to pay attention to or wait for a specific sound.
boringnoun	Causing boredom or tiredness; making one feel tired and impatient.
interceptionnoun	An act of intercepting something, the state of being intercepted, or a thing that is intercepted.
tappingnoun	An act of making a light hit or strike against something.
watergatenoun	An American political scandal (beginning with a burglary in the Watergate Hotel in Washington, DC, in 1972) that eventually led to the resignation of US President Richard Nixon.
botheringnoun	That bothers; annoying, irritating.
antagonizing	Tending to antagonize.
inflatingverb	(transitive) To enlarge an object by pushing air (or a gas) into it; to raise or expand abnormally
e-surveillancenoun	Surveillance by electronic means.
cybersurveillancenoun	Surveillance of computer activity.
antisurveillancenoun	countersurveillance
bluebuggingnoun	(computer security) The practice of secretly installing a back door on a mobile phone and then remotely monitoring conversations by means of Bluetooth technology.
uberveillancenoun	(slang) An omnipresent form of round-the-clock surveillance of people via widespread electronic devices, and especially computer chips embedded into human bodies.
electronicsnoun	(in the plural) Devices which require the flow of electrons through conductors and semiconductors in order to perform their function; devices that operate on electrical power (battery or outlet)