bedridden
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4.5
- adjective
- /ˈbɛdˌrɪdən/
:
encamado
- After a severe illness, she was bedridden for several weeks and needed help with daily tasks.
- left him bedridden
- bedridden patients
You know, when you're bedridden for three days, you start to feel unwell.
- You know, when you're bedridden for three days, you start to feel unwell.
- And so that's what I do, my work, that you know, why I sacrifice so much, why I prayed to get over the flu and the sinus infection, which had me bedridden.
- So my wife's there, don't know how long she's got to live, but she's she's bedridden.
- But Puka Shell was born on Maui and belonged to James's mom, Linda, who at the time was bedridden.
- That's right, if you miss a day, for instance, you're bedridden for a day, try and get next to a window.
- And they'd be bedridden and they're thyroid function would just get really impacted by that.
- So these were the bedridden brothers who came to Britain with their family, I believe their mother and father several, several years ago.
Examples
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My brother Jacob lay bedridden for months before his death.
Fiction book (2001) -
So these were the bedridden brothers who came to Britain with their family, I believe their mother and father several, several years ago.
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I am bedridden for at least at least a day or two.
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Sometimes patients become bedridden, totally dependent.
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Aunt March is bedridden, and would not survive a sea voyage.
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Certainly, I could have written more tactfully or more fully, but I was bedridden at the time.
Academic text (1997) -
Congestive heart failure keeps him bedridden for most of the time.
Academic text (2009) -
The eighty-year-old was in remission for cancer, but remained bedridden for a host of other conditions, including diabetes.
Academic text (2015) -
On Friday, the day before the deposition, Dot tells me that Donny Ray is bedridden and cannot leave the house.
Fiction book (1995) -
He was diagnosed with severe depression and obesity and spent the next 8 months institutionalised and bedridden.
Synonyms
10
5.6
Not able to work because you are sick or injured and must stay in bed
Unable to get out of bed because of illness or weakness
Lying in bed because you are ill
Unable to get out of bed because of illness
Antonyms
How Confined
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Bedridden combines bed and ridden, from ride meaning 'to be carried'. Think of the bed 'holding you down', so a bedridden person cannot get out of bed because of illness.