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bedridden

adjective

bed·​rid·​den ˈbed-ˌri-dᵊn How to pronounce bedridden (audio)
variants or less commonly bedrid
: confined (as by illness) to bed

Example Sentences

Recent Examples on the Web In an elegant Cape Town home, an aging live-in servant named Mavis (Nosipho Mtebe) has been working for decades for a now-bedridden and possibly dying boss. Noel Murray, Los Angeles Times, 15 July 2022 But despite Buryak’s desperate pleas, Vlad refused to leave his grandfather, who was bedridden and battling stage-four cancer. Paulina Villegas And Reis Thebault, Anchorage Daily News, 20 June 2022 But despite Buryak’s desperate pleas, Vlad refused to leave his grandfather, who was bedridden and battling stage-four cancer. Reis Thebault, Washington Post, 19 June 2022 Bennett was bedridden and on a heart-lung bypass machine at the University of Maryland Medical Center from October 2021 until the transplant surgery. Karen Weintraub, USA TODAY, 9 Mar. 2022 State and federal officials described miserable conditions at the warehouse, with some bedridden residents on floor mattresses crying for help and some with full diapers. CBS News, 22 June 2022 Those who were largely bedridden — 22 of them — were taken directly to other facilities. Steve Thompson, Washington Post, 17 June 2022 While helping her bedridden mother into an evacuation minivan, Oksana Zakharenko appeared distressed. New York Times, 8 June 2022 An Alabama man who police say killed his mother with a sword and left his bedridden uncle in critical condition on Sunday was arrested after a car chase shortly after the incident, reports said. Fox News, 18 Jan. 2022 See More

Word History

Etymology

alteration of Middle English bedrede, bedreden, from Old English bedreda, from bedreda one confined to bed, from bedd bed + -rida, -reda, from rīdan to ride — more at bed entry 1, ride entry 1

First Known Use

before the 12th century, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of bedridden was before the 12th century

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