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sickbed

[ sik-bed ]

/ ˈsɪkˌbɛd /

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noun

the bed used by a sick person.

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Origin of sickbed

late Middle English word dating back to 1375–1425; see origin at sick¹, bed

Words nearby sickbed

sick, sick and tired, sick as a dog, sick at heart, sick bay, sickbed, sick building syndrome, sick call, sick day, sick-dog, sicken

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Example sentences from the Web for sickbed

To prove that this was not so, these men wore the clothes of sick people, and even slept on the sheets taken from the sickbed.
Little Busybodies|Jeanette Augustus Marks and Julia Moody
For example, it is not right to leave the sickbed of one dear to us because his pains are unbearable.
Elements of Morals|Paul Janet
The father lay in the parlor, on his sickbed, and groaned and complained and cursed the hour of his birth.
Dame Care|Hermann Sudermann
For the next month his time was almost wholly taken up by the sickbed, and in the first week of December the end came.
Keats|Sidney Colvin

What he wants to see again, he writes now further from his sickbed, are the simple flowers of our spring.
Keats|Sidney Colvin

Medical definitions for sickbed

sickbed

[ sĭk′bĕd′ ]

n.

A sick person's bed.

The American Heritage® Stedman's Medical Dictionary Copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company.

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