bedrid
AmericanEtymology
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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These inmates were Janet Smith and Nanny Nivison—the one old, and almost bedrid; the other young, and beautiful, and kind-hearted.
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Her voice of call is exceedingly musical, and sounds sweetly in the ears of the infirm and bedrid.
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Does he not lie there as a perpetual lesson of despair, and type of bedrid valetudinarian impotence?
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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.
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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.
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