bedfast
Americanadjective
adjective
Etymology
Origin of bedfast
Example Sentences
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Here and there a bedfast invalid screamed foolishly.
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His mother had been bedfast with an incurable ailment for months and he wanted to marry highfalutin Mary Louise Smith, 18-year-old daughter of onetime big-league Ballplayer Jimmy Smith, now a well-to-do Pittsburgh nightclub owner.
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He first tried it three years ago on a young woman patient in Houston who had been bedfast six years with arthritic swellings in both knees.
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The enemy that made General Douglas MacArthur a bedfast hospital casualty last week is as common as it is mysterious.
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Mother is bedfast with rheumatism," he said, "and it would do her a power of good if you would run in and see her sometime.
From The Merriweather Girls and the Mystery of the Queen's Fan by Edholm, Lizette M.
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