bedridden
confined to bed because of illness, injury, etc.
Origin of bedridden
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How to use bedridden in a sentence
You tell the story of a mysterious illness in Sweden where hundreds of children have become bedridden.
The Neurologist Who Diagnoses Psychosomatics - Issue 107: The Edge | Steve Paulson | September 22, 2021 | NautilusIt’s colorful, it’s simple, and the game mechanic is literally about taking a stroll—which is pretty poignant when you realize she designed it primarily for bedridden kids recovering from illness.
What scientists learned when they tried to raise a chimp with a human baby | PopSci Staff | September 21, 2021 | Popular-ScienceSix days later she was discharged, but she was bedridden for two more weeks with chest pains, a rapid pulse, and general exhaustion.
What went so wrong with covid in India? Everything. | Sonia Faleiro | July 5, 2021 | MIT Technology ReviewShe was expected to stay home and help her beleaguered and sometimes bedridden mother, but she was the smartest kid in town with ambition to burn.
There Is a Better Way to Use Power at Work. This Forgotten Business Guru Has the Secrets | Matthew Barzun | June 15, 2021 | TimeWhen for a couple of weeks Renee herself was bedridden — fatigued and wheezing — there were rumors that she, too, had passed away.
“We Don’t Even Know Who Is Dead or Alive”: Trapped Inside an Assisted Living Facility During the Pandemic | by Ava Kofman | November 30, 2020 | ProPublica
When it came to paying it back, he was helplessly and horribly bedridden.
Former Navy Officer Bryan Caisse Is Accused of Defrauding Friends and Classmates | Michael Daly | January 22, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTThere was a war and Matthew (Dan Stevens) was bedridden until he got up and walked.
‘Borgen,’ ‘Girls,’ ‘Parenthood,’ ‘Mad Men’ & More: Ten Best TV Shows of 2012 | Jace Lacob, Maria Elena Fernandez | December 18, 2012 | THE DAILY BEASTbedridden Child Rather spent about three years of his childhood bedridden with rheumatic fever.
10 Revelations from ‘Rather Outspoken’ Autobiography | Ben Jacobs | April 28, 2012 | THE DAILY BEASTAs Rather puts it, “bedridden seriously, as in using a bed pan.”
10 Revelations from ‘Rather Outspoken’ Autobiography | Ben Jacobs | April 28, 2012 | THE DAILY BEASTThe 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.
My New Curate | P.A. SheehanThe 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.
Tales Of Men And Ghosts | Edith WhartonElvira's bedridden old mother heard me, and she was so crazy for some one to talk with, I stepped in a minute.
A Girl Of The Limberlost | Gene Stratton PorterHe is sitting in a cottars house, reading the Bible to an old bedridden woman, the farm servants gathered round to get his word.
Spare Hours | John Brown
British Dictionary definitions for bedridden
/ (ˈbɛdˌrɪdən) /
confined to bed because of illness, esp for a long or indefinite period
Origin of bedridden
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