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bedridden
[ bed-rid-n ]
adjective
- confined to bed because of illness, injury, etc.
bedridden
/ ˈbɛdˌrɪdən /
adjective
- confined to bed because of illness, esp for a long or indefinite period
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Origin of bedridden1
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Example Sentences
When it came to paying it back, he was helplessly and horribly bedridden.
There was a war and Matthew (Dan Stevens) was bedridden until he got up and walked.
Bedridden Child Rather spent about three years of his childhood bedridden with rheumatic fever.
As Rather puts it, “bedridden seriously, as in using a bed pan.”
The bedridden blues icon is too sick to speak up as her son and husband battle over her estate in court.
One of these calls led him to a house where an old woman was bedridden.
The old Signora Montani is bedridden; how could she get to mass?
But she had his bedridden mother to look after, and the children, and she broke down under it, and finally had to ask for help.
Elvira's bedridden old mother heard me, and she was so crazy for some one to talk with, I stepped in a minute.
He is sitting in a cottars house, reading the Bible to an old bedridden woman, the farm servants gathered round to get his word.
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