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

In another dormitory up stairs, we found ten or twelve bedrid women, one of them within a few months of completing the hundredth year of her age, but able to converse.

From Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 433 Volume 17, New Series, April 17, 1852 by Chambers, Robert

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

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

Past midnight this poor maid hath spun, And yet the work is not half done, Which must supply from earnings scant A feeble bedrid parent's want.

From The Works of Charles Lamb in Four Volumes, Volume 4 by Lamb, Charles

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

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