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

Not even Orthodoxy, bedrid as she seemed, but will have a hand in this confusion.

From The French Revolution by Carlyle, Thomas

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

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

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

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

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