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Meanings of bedridden 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
                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
                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 bedridden in English
                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
                6
                After the summer he hardly left his room, and was mostly bedridden.
                Erasmus and the Age of Reformation
                7
                The bedridden resident was malformed, stretched out of shape in the middle.
                Seven Wonders of a Once and Future World & Other Stories
                8
                We have experimented with bedridden men-men who were able to sit up.
                My Life and Work
                9
                I then visited Mrs Arnett, a very earnest churchwoman, but permanently bedridden.
                The Club of Queer Trades
                10
                Aside from the phobics there are the old, kids, bedridden, hospital patients-
                The Long Earth
                11
                At present, she is bedridden and shows no recognition of friends and family.
                Table for five
                12
                Gabor's spokesman said the actress had been bedridden for the past few months.
                Reuters
                13
                This interested the whole town in both the cripple and his bedridden instructor.
                After a Shadow and Other Stories
                14
                Surgery was deemed successful but he remained bedridden after returning home.
                Reuters
                15
                No, she actually stayed in her room all the time-she'sbedridden.
                Death of a Red Heroine
                16
                Nathan had vomited for three days and was bedridden for two weeks afterward.
                Strange Sweet Song
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