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

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

Doth hee in downy snow there closely shrowd His bedrid limmes, wrapt in a fleecy clowd?

From The Complete Works of Richard Crashaw, Volume I (of 2) by Crashaw, Richard

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

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

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

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 Carlyle, Thomas