Usually means: Confined to bed by illness.
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  1. bedridden: Merriam-Webster
  2. bedridden: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. bedridden: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. bedridden: Collins English Dictionary
  5. bedridden: Vocabulary.com
  6. Bedridden, bedridden: Wordnik
  7. bedridden: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. bedridden: Wiktionary
  9. bedridden: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. bedridden: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. bedridden: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. bedridden: Dictionary.com
  13. bedridden: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Bedridden, The Bedridden: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Bedridden: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. bedridden: Rhymezone
  17. Bedridden: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. bedridden: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. bedridden: FreeDictionary.org
  20. bedridden: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. bedridden: TheFreeDictionary.com
  22. bedridden: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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  1. bedridden: Legal dictionary

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. bedridden: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. bedridden: Medical dictionary

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  1. bedridden: Urban Dictionary

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▸ adjective:  Confined to bed because of infirmity or illness.

Similar:
bedfast, bedrid, sick, ill, infirm, sick-abed, bedbound, laid up, housebound, shut-in, more...

Phrases:
bedridden patient, more...

Adjectives:
patient, long, old, most, poor, elderly, fewer, bald, permanent

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Similar:
bedfast, bedrid, sick, ill, infirm, sick-abed, bedbound, laid up, housebound, shut-in, more...

Phrases:
bedridden patient, more...

Adjectives:
patient, long, old, most, poor, elderly, fewer, bald, permanent

Colors:
    gray,     pale blue,     beige,     white,     light gray, more...



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