Bedridden Definition

bĕdrĭdn
adjective
Having to stay in bed, usually for a long period, because of illness, infirmity, etc.
Webster's New World
Confined to bed because of illness or infirmity.
American Heritage Medicine

Confined to bed because of infirmity or illness.

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Alternative spelling of bedridden.

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Origin of Bedridden

  • Middle English bedreden from Old English bedrida bed bed bed rida rider (from rīdan to ride ride)

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From Old English bedreda, from rida (“rider”), with -en by analogy with past participle adjectives

    From Wiktionary

Bedridden Sentence Examples

  • When he was a teenager, he was bedridden for several months with tuberculosis.

  • Turning should be done at a minimum of every two hours if the child is bedridden.

  • Skin care is essential for children who are bedridden or in a cast or restraints.

  • Patients who are bedridden are at risk of developing pressure ulcers.

  • In the summer of 1879 Hall was struck down by apoplexy, and for the remaining nine years of his life he was practically bedridden.

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