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UK
/bˈɛdbʌɡ/
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[ US /ˈbɛdbəɡ/ ]
[ US /ˈbɛdbəɡ/ ]
NOUN
- bug of temperate regions that infests especially beds and feeds on human blood
How To Use bedbug In A Sentence
- Three bedbugs collected from the other patient tested positive for the superbug MRSA methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, which is also resistant to antibiotics. Seattle Post-Intelligencer: Local News
- From townhouses to the most humble homes, New York City is being invaded by bedbugs.
- My body, stiffened and full of aches from the hardness of my conchy sore and bitten by bedbugs and other insects, finds now no rest; my soul no longer tastes the sleep that brings on oblivion. Sketchy Thoughts
- In attempting to treat the invasion, the woman's husband used a product not designed to kill bedbugs, and did not follow the label instructions in treating the home, the CDC said. FOXNews.com
- At the word "bedbug," I had shot out from under the covers, and stood pressed against the wall, as far away as possible from the teeming nest of vermin I now envisioned as our bed. Sick Cycle Carousel
- The exterminators are on the front lines of the bedbug battles, and they have seen the casualties : romance.
- But The Bed Bug Survival Guide is a must-read for those who are worried about the growing bedbug infestation.
- Infected premises have to be doused with pesticides, but bedbugs are becoming resistant to the chemicals usually used to kill them.
- Car-boot sales and second-hand furniture is another way bugs get into homes - bedbugs and fleas are prime beneficiaries of the trend, says Sheard.
- Others blame the comeback of bedbugs on their resistance to DDT's many substitutes e.g., malathion, diazinon, lindane, chlordane, dichlorovos and now pyrethroids. Bill Chameides: Is Propoxur the Way to Not Let the Bedbugs Bite?