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

Does he not lie there as a perpetual lesson of despair, and type of bedrid valetudinarian impotence?

From A Century of English Essays An Anthology Ranging from Caxton to R. L. Stevenson & the Writers of Our Own Time by Rhys, Ernest

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 Donne, John

In vain did the poor bedrid woman try to comfort her daughter.

From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Volume I Historical, Traditionary, and Imaginative by Various

She, perhaps, is dead now, for when he last called she was bedrid, and nearly insensible.

From Memoirs of the Life and Correspondence of Henry Reeve, C.B., D.C.L. In Two Volumes. Volume II. by Laughton, John Knox

There's mother—she's been bedrid now This twenty year.

From Cap and Gown A Treasury of College Verse by Knowles, Frederic Lawrence