noun
- a small, flat, reddish-brown insect that feeds on human blood and infests beds and furniture
Examples
- The hotel room was infested with bedbugs.
- She woke up with red, itchy bites from bedbugs.
- The exterminator came to treat the bedbug problem.
- Bedbugs are notoriously difficult to eliminate once they establish themselves.
- They had to throw away their mattress because of the bedbugs.
- The apartment building hired professionals to deal with the bedbug infestation.