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bedfast

[ bed-fast, -fahst ]

adjective

, Chiefly Midland and Western U.S.
  1. confined to bed, as by illness or age; bedridden.


bedfast

/ ˈbɛdˌfɑːst /

adjective

  1. an archaic word for bedridden


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Word History and Origins

Origin of bedfast1

First recorded in 1630–40; bed + fast 1

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Example Sentences

Every now and then for a good many years he's had a bedfast spell.

Early in the new year he became bedfast and suffered excruciatingly at times.

I have a daughter in that room who has been ill and bedfast for more than two years.

She had barely recovered from the illness that kept her bedfast during the exciting days of the strike.

She had wondered about Parkins, still bedfast, but no inkling had come to her ears of his perfidious intentions toward herself.

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