Bedridden
confined to bed because of illness, injury, etc.
Contemporary Examples
There was a war and Matthew (Dan Stevens) was bedridden until he got up and walked.
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bedridden Child Rather spent about three years of his childhood bedridden with rheumatic fever.
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As Rather puts it, “bedridden seriously, as in using a bed pan.”
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The bedridden blues icon is too sick to speak up as her son and husband battle over her estate in court.
The War Over Etta James’ Fortune Christine Pelisek March 7, 2011
Historical Examples
They will always appear in a bedridden paretic in a few days if not kept perfectly clean.
How to Care for the Insane William D. Granger
For six years she had been helpless and bedridden in that little room.
The Rise of Roscoe Paine Joseph C. Lincoln
Sometimes her imagination would conjure up a Victoria helpless, wasted, bedridden, and her heart seemed to stop.
A Bed of Roses W. L. George
bedridden as he was, the undertaking seemed beyond his strength.
Mark Twain, A Biography, 1835-1910, Complete Albert Bigelow Paine
Why, only a short time ago a bedridden old woman moved a brick wall!
Fruits of Culture Leo Tolstoy
It’s called the Henry Hill, and Mrs. Henry is old and bedridden.
The Long Roll Mary Johnston
adjective
confined to bed because of illness, esp for a long or indefinite period
adj.
also bed-ridden, mid-14c., from adjectival use of late Old English bæddrædæn “bedridden (man),” from bedrid, from Old English bedreda, literally “bedrider, bedridden (man),” from bed + rida “rider” (see ride (v.)). Originally a noun, it became an adjective in Middle English and acquired an -en on the analogy of past participle adjectives from strong verbs such as ride.
bedridden bed·rid·den (běd’rĭd’n) or bed·rid (-rĭd’)
adj.
Confined to bed because of illness or infirmity.
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