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 DalrympleEarly in the new year he became bedfast and suffered excruciatingly at times.
Hymns and Hymnwriters of Denmark | Jens Christian AabergI have a daughter in that room who has been ill and bedfast for more than two years.
Precious Memories | VariousShe had barely recovered from the illness that kept her bedfast during the exciting days of the strike.
From Workhouse to Westminster | George HawShe 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
/ (ˈbɛdˌfɑːst) /
an archaic word for bedridden
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