bedridden

• bed-ridden

From Middle English bedredyn, bedraden, bedreden, bæddrædæn (also as bedreede, bedrede), from Old English bedreda (“bedridden”, adj.), from bedreda, bedrida, bæddryda (“one who is bedridden”, noun), from bed, bedd (“bed”) + rida (“rider”), with -en by analogy with past participle adjectives.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈbɛdɹɪdən/

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bedridden (not comparable)

1. Confined to bed because of infirmity or illness.
   • 1849–1861, Thomas Babington Macaulay, chapter XXIV, in The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, volume (please specify |volume=I to V), London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, →OCLC:

     the estate of a bedridden old gentleman

• (confined to bed): bedfast, bedbound