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Counteract vs Antibug - What's the difference?

counteract | antibug |

As a verb counteract

is to act in opposition to; thwart; to hinder, defeat, or frustrate, by contrary agency or influence; as, to counteract the effect of medicines; to counteract good advice.

As an adjective antibug is

serving to kill or repel bugs (insects).

counteract

English

Verb

(en verb)
  • To act in opposition to; thwart; to hinder, defeat, or frustrate, by contrary agency or influence; as, to counteract the effect of medicines; to counteract good advice.

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    Derived terms

    * counteractant * counteracter * counteractingly * counteraction * counteractive * counteractively * counteractor

    antibug

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Serving to kill or repel bugs (insects).
  • * 1961 , Felix Greene, Awakened China: the country Americans don't know
    • 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...
  • * 1972 , The Popular Science Monthly
    • Use it with an antibug candle and it wards off pests while it lights your patio.
  • * 2009 , Terra Wellington, The Mom's Guide to Growing Your Family Green
    • Replace your outdoor porch lights with antibug lights, which have a special yellow coating...
  • Serving to counteract bugs (surveillance devices).
  • * 1975 , Alan LeMond, Ron Fry, No place to hide
    • The infinity mike and the harmonica bug have the great advantage of being undetectable by an antibug detector.
  • * 1991 , John C Klotter, Jacqueline R Kanovitz, Constitutional Law, 1992 Supplement
    • Also, bugs are subject to malfunction and discovery, especially as sophisticated antibug devices have been developed.
  • * 1998 , Robert Ludlum, The Matarese Countdown
    • Breaking antibug commercial phones was no problem for the intercepting devices of the government.