bedridden

[ bed-rid-n ]

adjective

1. confined to bed because of illness, injury, etc.

bedridden

/ ˈbɛdˌrɪdən /

adjective

1. confined to bed because of illness, esp for a long or indefinite period

Word History and Origins

Origin of bedridden¹

1300–50; Middle English, variant (by confusion with past participle of ride ) of bedrid

Word History and Origins

Origin of bedridden¹

Old English bedreda , from bedd bed + -rida rider, from rīdan to ride

Example Sentences

You tell the story of a mysterious illness in Sweden where hundreds of children have become bedridden.

From Nautilus

It’s colorful, it’s simple, and the game mechanic is literally about taking a stroll—which is pretty poignant when you realize she designed it primarily for bedridden kids recovering from illness.

From Popular-Science

Six days later she was discharged, but she was bedridden for two more weeks with chest pains, a rapid pulse, and general exhaustion.

From MIT Technology Review

She was expected to stay home and help her beleaguered and sometimes bedridden mother, but she was the smartest kid in town with ambition to burn.

From Time

When for a couple of weeks Renee herself was bedridden — fatigued and wheezing — there were rumors that she, too, had passed away.

From ProPublica

When it came to paying it back, he was helplessly and horribly bedridden.

From The Daily Beast

There was a war and Matthew (Dan Stevens) was bedridden until he got up and walked.

From The Daily Beast

Bedridden Child Rather spent about three years of his childhood bedridden with rheumatic fever.

From The Daily Beast

As Rather puts it, “bedridden seriously, as in using a bed pan.”

From The Daily Beast

The bedridden blues icon is too sick to speak up as her son and husband battle over her estate in court.

From The Daily Beast

One of these calls led him to a house where an old woman was bedridden.

From Project Gutenberg

The old Signora Montani is bedridden; how could she get to mass?

From Project Gutenberg

But she had his bedridden mother to look after, and the children, and she broke down under it, and finally had to ask for help.

From Project Gutenberg

Elvira's bedridden old mother heard me, and she was so crazy for some one to talk with, I stepped in a minute.

From Project Gutenberg

He is sitting in a cottars house, reading the Bible to an old bedridden woman, the farm servants gathered round to get his word.

From Project Gutenberg

Related Words

• ill
• incapacitated
• infirm
• invalid