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

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 John Donne

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

From The French Revolution by Thomas Carlyle

Hark what he saies to you, O try your wits, they say you are excellent at it, for your Land has lain long bedrid, and unsensible.

From Wit Without Money The Works of Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher by Francis Beaumont

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

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 Charles Lamb