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bedded

[ bed-id ]

adjective

, Geology.
  1. of or relating to rocks that exhibit bedding. bedding.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of bedded1

First recorded in 1820–30; bed + -ed 3

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Example Sentences

And did I mention that his memoir, filled with tales of the women he has bedded, is called Exposing Myself?

I bedded down for this debate, Scotch in hand, expecting to be bored five ways to rigor mortis.

Charles was succeeded by his brother James II, who was even more promiscuous, and was said to have bedded over a thousand women.

By surrendering her virtue to Charles, Camilla had surrendered her right to marry him—the bedded could not be wedded.

Fresh intelligence had it that this village was one in a small cluster in which key al Qaeda commanders regularly bedded down.

Bedded in the soft earth underneath lay the slim buckskin sacks.

She was propped up at first only by the bunch of fruit trees, but by-and-by we bedded her in stones.

Beneath them the cross-bedded sandstone appears, showing a mottled surface of pale-pinkish hue.

Not a sound came out of the sheep, bedded on the hillside in contentment, secure in their trust of men and dogs.

His stomach had made a little depression in the grass as he whirled, and he was now nicely bedded down for a real spin.

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