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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