bedfast

[ bed-fast, -fahst ]
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adjectiveChiefly Midland and Western U.S.
  1. confined to bed, as by illness or age; bedridden.

Origin of bedfast

1
First recorded in 1630–40; bed + fast1

Words Nearby bedfast

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How to use bedfast in a sentence

  • Every now and then for a good many years he's had a bedfast spell.

    Kenny | Leona Dalrymple
  • Early in the new year he became bedfast and suffered excruciatingly at times.

    Hymns and Hymnwriters of Denmark | Jens Christian Aaberg
  • I have a daughter in that room who has been ill and bedfast for more than two years.

  • She had barely recovered from the illness that kept her bedfast during the exciting days of the strike.

  • She had wondered about Parkins, still bedfast, but no inkling had come to her ears of his perfidious intentions toward herself.

    Dreamy Hollow | Sumner Charles Britton

British Dictionary definitions for bedfast

bedfast

/ (ˈbɛdˌfɑːst) /


adjective
  1. an archaic word for bedridden

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