bedrid

American  

[bed-rid] / ˈbɛdˌrɪd /

adjective

1. bedridden.

2. worn-out; exhausted; decrepit.

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Etymology

Origin of bedrid

before 1000; Middle English bedrede, Old English bedreda, bedrida, equivalent to bed bed + -rida rider, akin to ride

Example Sentences

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bedrid

I fall sick of sin, and am bedded and bedrid, buried and putrified in the practice of sin, and all this while have no presage, no pulse, no sense of my sickness.

From Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions Together with Death's Duel by John Donne

These inmates were Janet Smith and Nanny Nivison—the one old, and almost bedrid; the other young, and beautiful, and kind-hearted.

From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 16 by Various

The 'old Gentleman in Oldham' is Loyola, as described in Oldham's third satire on the Jesuits, when   'Summon'd together, all th' officious band   The orders of their bedrid, chief attend.'

From The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays by Joseph Addison

She thinks a sight of the Saratoga water, and well she may, if that is what has brung her up, for she wuz always sick in Jonesville, kinder bedrid.

From Samantha at Saratoga by Marietta Holley

Death of the beautiful Nanette in the flower of her years: Dangerous illness of Luise: The Father bedrid with gout.

From The Life of Friedrich Schiller Comprehending an Examination of His Works by Thomas Carlyle