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We writers, as we work our way deeper into our craft, learn to drop more and more personal clues. Like burglars who secretly wish to be caught, we leave our fingerprints on broken locks, our voiceprints in bugged rooms, our footprints in the wet concrete.
Ross MacDonald

Meaning of "bugged" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF BUGGED

bugged  [bʌɡd] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF BUGGED

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Bugged is a verb.
The verb is the part of the sentence that is conjugated and expresses action and state of being.

See the conjugation of the verb bugged in English.

WHAT DOES BUGGED MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Bugged

Bugged may refer to: ▪ Bugged!, a 1997 horror-comedy film distributed by Troma ▪ Bugged, a 2000 album by Babybird ▪ "Bugged", an episode of Blood Ties ▪ "Bugged", an episode of Family Matters ▪ "Bugged", an episode of Delilah and Julius ▪ Bugged, to have placed, or to have been monitored by, a covert listening device...

CONJUGATION OF THE VERB TO BUGGED

PRESENT

Present
I bug
you bug
he/she/it bugs
we bug
you bug
they bug
Present continuous
I am bugging
you are bugging
he/she/it is bugging
we are bugging
you are bugging
they are bugging
Present perfect
I have bugged
you have bugged
he/she/it has bugged
we have bugged
you have bugged
they have bugged
Present perfect continuous
I have been bugging
you have been bugging
he/she/it has been bugging
we have been bugging
you have been bugging
they have been bugging
Present tense is used to refer to circumstances that exist at the present time or over a period that includes the present time. The present perfect refers to past events, although it can be considered to denote primarily the resulting present situation rather than the events themselves.

PAST

Past
I bugged
you bugged
he/she/it bugged
we bugged
you bugged
they bugged
Past continuous
I was bugging
you were bugging
he/she/it was bugging
we were bugging
you were bugging
they were bugging
Past perfect
I had bugged
you had bugged
he/she/it had bugged
we had bugged
you had bugged
they had bugged
Past perfect continuous
I had been bugging
you had been bugging
he/she/it had been bugging
we had been bugging
you had been bugging
they had been bugging
Past tense forms express circumstances existing at some time in the past,

FUTURE

Future
I will bug
you will bug
he/she/it will bug
we will bug
you will bug
they will bug
Future continuous
I will be bugging
you will be bugging
he/she/it will be bugging
we will be bugging
you will be bugging
they will be bugging
Future perfect
I will have bugged
you will have bugged
he/she/it will have bugged
we will have bugged
you will have bugged
they will have bugged
Future perfect continuous
I will have been bugging
you will have been bugging
he/she/it will have been bugging
we will have been bugging
you will have been bugging
they will have been bugging
The future is used to express circumstances that will occur at a later time.

CONDITIONAL

Conditional
I would bugged
you would bugged
he/she/it would bugged
we would bugged
you would bugged
they would bugged
Conditional continuous
I would be bugging
you would be bugging
he/she/it would be bugging
we would be bugging
you would be bugging
they would be bugging
Conditional perfect
I would have bugged
you would have bugged
he/she/it would have bugged
we would have bugged
you would have bugged
they would have bugged
Conditional perfect continuous
I would have been bugging
you would have been bugging
he/she/it would have been bugging
we would have been bugging
you would have been bugging
they would have been bugging
Conditional or "future-in-the-past" tense refers to hypothetical or possible actions.

IMPERATIVE

Imperative
you bug
we let´s bug
you bug
The imperative is used to form commands or requests.
NONFINITE VERB FORMS
Infinitive
to bug
Past participle
bugged
Present Participle
bugging
Infinitive shows the action beyond temporal perspective. The present participle or gerund shows the action during the session. The past participle shows the action after completion.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH BUGGED


chugged
tʃʌɡd
debugged
ˌdiːˈbʌɡd
drugged
drʌɡd
humbugged
ˈhʌmbʌɡd
jitterbugged
ˈdʒɪtəˌbʌɡd
lugged
lʌɡd
pugged
pʌɡd
shrugged
ʃrʌɡd
snugged
snʌɡd
tugged
tʌɡd
unplugged
ʌnˈplʌɡd

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE BUGGED

bugbane
bugbear
bugeye
buggan
bugger
bugger about
bugger all
bugger off
buggered
buggery
buggier
buggies
buggiest
bugginess
bugging
Buggins´ turn
Buggins´s turn
buggy

WORDS THAT END LIKE BUGGED

bagged
begged
clogged
dragged
flagged
gagged
hugged
jagged
jugged
lagged
legged
logged
long-legged
mugged
pegged
plugged
ragged
rugged
slugged
tagged

Synonyms and antonyms of bugged in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «BUGGED»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «bugged» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of bugged

Translation of «bugged» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF BUGGED

Find out the translation of bugged to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of bugged from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «bugged» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

被窃听
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

con micrófonos ocultos
570 millions of speakers

English

bugged
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

bugged
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

مُراقَب بِجِهاز سِرِّيّ
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

прослушиваемый потайным микрофоном
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

grampeado
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

bugged
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

sur écoute
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Diserang
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

verwanzt
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

いらいらした
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

도청장치가 된
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Bingung
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

bị đặt máy ghi âm nghe trộm
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

வேவு
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

Bugged
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

dinlenmişti
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

spiato
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

na podsłuchu
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

обладнаний підслуховуючим пристроєм
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

interceptat
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

παγιδευμένος με κρυφό μικρόφωνο
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

ingeluister
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

avlyssnad
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

avlyttet
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of bugged

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «BUGGED»

The term «bugged» is quite widely used and occupies the 42.122 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «BUGGED» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about bugged

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9 QUOTES WITH «BUGGED»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word bugged.
1
Fred F. Fielding
Dean had just come from seeing his lawyer. That was the first time that I found out that he had consulted a lawyer. He wanted to tell me what he thought was going on, but he was writing it down as if my house was bugged. He acted like everything was bugged.
2
Norton Juster
But I find the best things I do, I do when I'm trying to avoid doing something else I'm supposed to be doing. You know, you're working on something. You get bugged, or you lose your enthusiasm or something. So you turn to something else with an absolute vengeance.
3
Ross MacDonald
We writers, as we work our way deeper into our craft, learn to drop more and more personal clues. Like burglars who secretly wish to be caught, we leave our fingerprints on broken locks, our voiceprints in bugged rooms, our footprints in the wet concrete.
4
Hooman Majd
I know that my cell phone in Iran... is bugged, and they listen in, and my emails, I'm sure, are monitored inside Iran. They have my email address; it's not like they can't snoop on it.
5
Terry McAuliffe
I just operate on the assumption that all phone conversations are bugged.
6
Martin McGuinness
The fact is that a car used by Gerry Adams and myself during the course of the Mitchell review was bugged by elements within British military intelligence.
7
Bill Mumy
I bugged my mom and dad to 'get me inside the television set' when I was about four years old.
8
Jesse Plemons
I didn't really start doing stuff until I was 8 or so, but I was an extra in a bunch of different movies, and I just really took to it and really enjoyed it. I kind of bugged my parents to give L.A. a shot, and they were just super-supportive.
9
Teddy Sears
I walked out of 'Harry and the Hendersons.' Harry bugged me; I don't know. Yeah, it's weird because I think Sasquatches are great, but not then. Maybe not that weekend - I don't know. I don't know what it was.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «BUGGED»

Discover the use of bugged in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to bugged and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
What Bugged the Dinosaurs?: Insects, Disease, and Death in ...
Yet as What Bugged the Dinosaurs? reveals, T. rex was not the only killer.
George Poinar Jr., Roberta Poinar, 2010
2
Bugged!
Returning home from college to find disturbing things happening in Warm Springs, twins Jean and Jared suspect the top-secret laboratory, and resolve to unravel the mystery.
Janet Lorimer, 2009
3
Bugged Out!
The reader's decisions control the course of an adventure involving an ancient mask from the Amazon rain forest that can change people into flies.
Laban Carrick Hill, 1996
4
Bugged-Out Insects
"Explores a variety of unusual insects, including locusts, army ants, and scarab beetles, and examines their biological make-up, environment, and behavior"--Provided by publisher.
Margaret J. Anderson, 2011
5
The M Room: Secret Listeners Who Bugged the Nazis in WW2
As seen on pbs and Channel 4 documentary "Spying on Hitler's Army"...This is the story of the German émigrés who fled Hitler's regime and became secret listeners for British Intelligence during the Second World War.
Helen Fry, 2012
6
This Book Is Bugged
Introduces spies and espionage operations carried out from the Trojan War through modern times, covering what a spy's mission might be, how they would disguise themselves and transmit messages, and what gadgets they would use.
Sue Bursztynski, Mitch Vane, 2007
7
Three Stooges Graphic Novels #1: Bed Bugged
All-new adventures, in graphic novel format, of the Three Stooges--Larry, Moe, and Curly--as they bumble humorously through life, exterminating pests, starring as cowboys in a new sci-fi Western, training as sumo wrestlers, taking over a ...
Jim Salicrup, George Gladir, 2012
8
Bed-Bugged
The biggest one-a book filled with her photographs-she keeps hidden in the closet. She tells Doodle the book is for her mother, who disappeared when Molly was only three.
Susan Kroupa, 2013
9
Bugged
Mr. Seita confronts Mr. Tell with an extortion threat and the reader is left wondering what William Tell would do. The rest of this book deals with Vincent Seita and his early childhood up to when he returns from the Vietnam War.
Alan Barysh, 2013
10
Bugged!
Tired of being covered in itchy mosquito bites, Riley uses science to investigate why mosquitoes are more attracted to him than to his friends.
Michelle Knudsen, 2013

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «BUGGED»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term bugged is used in the context of the following news items.
1
Bugged by beggars
Beggars on Dhaka streets, at intersections and in front of markets. Hundreds of them arrive in the capital before Eid to earn some quick bucks ... «The Daily Star, Jul 15»
2
'Destiny The Taken King' Red Bull Codes Bugged By Scammers
The Red Bull promo released for "Destiny The Taken King" was recently bugged by scammers. The new reward scheme was a deal between ... «Yibada, Jul 15»
3
Wikileaks: NSA bugged Brazil
The National Security Agency bugged nearly 30 Brazilian government phone numbers, according to the organization Wikileaks. «Washington Examiner, Jul 15»
4
Tips on not getting bugged by pest control services
Living in a hot and humid state like Texas means you have probably encountered a few spiders, a trail of ants or an occasional cockroach in ... «Midland Reporter-Telegram, Jul 15»
5
What's on Friday: Junction Festival, Hollow Sounds, Bugged Out …
The Bugged Out club grew out of that brilliant magazine. The club night and brand is still kicking and screaming 20 years on, with a rich history ... «Irish Times, Jul 15»
6
Wikileaks: US and UK Bugged Merkel-Hollande Plan for Greece
The United States National Security Agency has been massively targeting phone numbers of top German ministers and public officials ... «Greek Reporter, Jul 15»
7
Dear Abby: She's still bugged by boyfriend's threesome
Dear Abby: I have been with my boyfriend for a little more than two years. He recently mentioned that when he was younger, at 19, he had a ... «Press of Atlantic City, Jul 15»
8
Virus hit Brazil but they're still bugged by lack of flair
CONCEPCION (Chile) - Brazil coach Dunga blamed a mystery virus for his team's shock Copa America exit on Saturday as the most successful ... «The Straits Times, Jun 15»
9
Bugged by a buckled LA sidewalk? Submit your photos to The Times
Los Angeles plans to spend nearly $1.4 billion over the next 30 years to repair its immense network of more than 10,000 miles of sidewalks. «Los Angeles Times, Jun 15»
10
Remember the Time the CIA Bugged a Cat to Spy on the Soviets?
My favorite story about American spying is one I've never been able to verify with the Central Intelligence Agency, and not for lack of trying. «GovExec.com, Jun 15»

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