bedridden
See also: bed-ridden
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From Middle English bedredyn, bedraden, bedreden, bæddrædæn (also as bedreede, bedrede), from Old English bedreda (“bedridden”, adj.), from bedreda, bedrida, bæddryda (“one who is bedridden”, noun), from bed, bedd (“bed”) + rida (“rider”), with -en by analogy with past participle adjectives.
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bedridden (not comparable)
- Confined to bed because of infirmity or illness.
- 1849–1861, Thomas Babington Macaulay, chapter 24, in The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, volumes (please specify |volume=I to V), London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, →OCLC:
- the estate of a bedridden old gentleman
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confined to bed
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