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Meanings of bedfast in English

Confined to bed (by illness)

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        Examples for "abed"
        Examples for "abed"
        1
        I expected Liz coming to ask me why I wasn't yet abed.
        The pretender's crown
        2
        The carpenters were no doubt all abed, their work done at last.
        Sovereign
        3
        I was at Coldmoat, safe abed. She looked down at the water.
        A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms
        4
        The first to go was the practice of taking my chocolate abed.
        The Fool Errant / Being the Memoirs of Francis-Anthony Strelley,...
        5
        Whether Drayden had died in battle or abed, Roland could not know.
        Brotherhood of the Wolf
        1
        I said the father was a penniless pauper; he died lingeringly bedridden.
        Kenelm Chillingly — Volume 08
        2
        On the day of the ordeal only the bedridden remained at home.
        The Adventures of Kathlyn
        3
        Dad had been bedridden for months and was in a nursing home.
        The Guardian
        4
        Even bedridden, the patriarch dominates the space by means of an intercom.
        The Guardian
        5
        She's normally bedridden, but as you can see, she's very strongly moved.
        The Lives of Christopher Chant
        1
        She, perhaps, is dead now, for when he last called she was bedrid, and nearly insensible.
        Memoirs of the Life and Correspondence of Henry Reeve, C.B., D.C...
        2
        Dad had been bedridden for months and was in a nursing home.
        The Guardian
        3
        Gabor's spokesman said the actress had been bedridden for the past few months.
        Reuters
        4
        Nathan had vomited for three days and was bedridden for two weeks afterward.
        Strange Sweet Song
        5
        It was such a dramatic shift for me to be bedridden.
        Escape
        Usage of bedfast in English
        1
        He was never bedfast and never had to be waited on.
        The Life of Me: An Autobiography
        2
        Every now and then for a good many years he's had a bedfast spell.
        Kenny
        3
        At the coming of winter, Uncle Zed was bedfast.
        Dorian
        4
        She had become bedfast when she was nineteen.
        Personal Experiences of S. O. Susag
        5
        Darned near bedfast I was!
        Somewhere in Red Gap
        Bedfast through the time