Bedridden

['bedrɪd(ə)n] or ['bɛdrɪdn]

(v. i.) Confined to the bed by sickness or infirmity.

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a. Confined to the bed.

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He mentioned to me as a secret, that he is courting a young lady who has, as no doubt you are aware, a bedridden Pa. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
Keeps her room when not actually bedridden, and hasn't been out of it fifteen times in as many years, Arthur. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
And I must lie here like a bedridden monk, exclaimed Ivanhoe, while the game that gives me freedom or death is played out by the hand of others! Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
The old man himself was getting bedridden. George Eliot. Middlemarch.

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