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

In another dormitory up stairs, we found ten or twelve bedrid women, one of them within a few months of completing the hundredth year of her age, but able to converse.

From Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 433 Volume 17, New Series, April 17, 1852 by Robert Chambers

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

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

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

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