bedside
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2.1
- noun
- /ˈbɛdˌsaɪd/
:
cabecera
- The nurse quickly rushed to the bedside of the patient who had suddenly collapsed.
- bedside care
- bedside nurse
- bedside table
Like children at the parents bedside when they pass.
- Like children at the parents bedside when they pass.
- I have books on my shelf at my bedside.
- We're not moving our knowledge from the bench to the bedside.
- Some people get to stay by this the bedside.
- Bobby Kennedy, Jack's brother, materializes at her bedside.
- And she said all the media frenzy and Marta sat by his bedside and it's the story of this ET.
- That means if your mother is sick and she's dying, you're at her bedside.
- It's because I have a responsibility because I have been, you know, at the bedside of way too many dying people.
- They thought whatever they thought, they were holding me together to get to my brother's bedside.
- I mean, it's a it's a visceral and horrible situation to be bedside for that.
Examples
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When I was twenty-two, I had sat miserably by my mother's bedside in a Birmingham hospital.
Academic text (2000) -
Mr. Wilkerson, I've just come from Emmie Slattery's bedside.
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It's because I have a responsibility because I have been, you know, at the bedside of way too many dying people.
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And I had the freedom of mind space to just be, pray, have faith and sit at the hospital bedside of my family.
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Hours at her bedside, holding that wrinkly hand, telling her you love her.
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Before leaving, she bent over Casimir's bedside one last time to check his wounds.
Fiction book (1992) -
In addition, caregivers at the bedside must receive a thorough grounding in pain management.
Academic text (2001) -
During her final moments, I held her hand at the bedside to comfort her.
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Family members gathered around the bedside to say their last goodbyes.
Compounds
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Bedside is simply bed + side, meaning the 'side' next to a 'bed'. So, someone 'at the bedside' is standing or sitting by the bed to watch over or care for a sick person.