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

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 Ernest Rhys

Germany at large, though it lay so silent, in its bedrid condition, was in great anxiety.

From History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 21 by Thomas Carlyle

Her voice of call is exceedingly musical, and sounds sweetly in the ears of the infirm and bedrid.

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

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

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 John Knox Laughton