to bed
- verb
- /bɛd/
- In the spring, I will bed the new flowers in the garden to create a colorful display.
Examples
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Before planting, it's important to bed the soil properly to ensure the flowers thrive.
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And also I think I'm going to plant in this bed, I'm going to plant.
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Starting with these four beds, we got them all planted.
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She had shown him how to bed them and explained the whole process.
Fiction book (1998) -
All I do, I just plant out my bed like this couldn't be simpler.
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So plant them into beds or ground that was manured the previous spring.
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I just planted an HR Plex in my raised beds outside.
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He decided to bed the vegetable plants in rows to make harvesting easier.
Idioms
Phrasal Verbs
- Specialized
Make something new, like shoes or a machine, work well by using it for a while
- Specialized
Use new brake parts gently at first so they stop well and safely
Compounds
- Specialized
A bed used in hospitals that can be raised or lowered to help care for patients
- Specialized
A place with tools for checking how machines or programs work under real conditions
- Archaic
Short, lightweight clothing that you wear over pajamas when sitting in bed for warmth
- Slur
An insulting name for a woman thought to be sexually available, also used in the past for a household servant
- Specialized
A network of tiny blood vessels in tissue where blood gives oxygen and nutrients to cells and removes waste
- Specialized
The part of the lung with many tiny air sacs where gases pass into the blood
- Specialized
The part of the jawbone that holds the tooth sockets and supports teeth
- Specialized
A layer of sand or gravel in a sewage plant where tiny living things break down waste
- Specialized
A machine that burns fuel in a hot layer of small particles to make steam more efficiently and cleanly
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Etymology
Bed as a verb for planting comes from the idea of a flowerbed: to 'bed' plants is to place them in their bed of soil so they can grow. Gardeners say they 'bed' flowers when they put them into prepared ground.