bedfast
Americanadjective
adjective
Etymology
Origin of bedfast
Example Sentences
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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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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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In the spring of 1880 I was taken down with a severe attack of stomach trouble, was bedfast for three months, and not able to drive out for nearly six months.
From Science and Health, with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy
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