Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A sick person's bed.

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  • noun A bed used by a person who is sick.
  • noun A place for convalescence.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun the bed on which a sick person lies

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Examples

  • His friends described his last three weeks in sickbed, attended to by them and members of his family.

    Haibun: Elegy for Caroline Neal Whitman 2010

  • He could not walk and had to be carried by his servants into the Long Lane meeting house.25 Rising from his sickbed was an act of will.

    Ratification Pauline Maier 2010

  • He could not walk and had to be carried by his servants into the Long Lane meeting house.25 Rising from his sickbed was an act of will.

    Ratification Pauline Maier 2010

  • He could not walk and had to be carried by his servants into the Long Lane meeting house.25 Rising from his sickbed was an act of will.

    Ratification Pauline Maier 2010

  • This one, The House On Tradd Street by Karen White, came from a friend and being on my "sickbed" with a sore throat I was reading anything that came my way.

    Epinions Recent Content for Home 2009

  • This one, The House On Tradd Street by Karen White, came from a friend and being on my "sickbed" with a sore throat I was reading anything that came my way.

    Epinions Recent Content for Home 2009

  • If only Matthew could rise from his sickbed and give this snake a pounding.

    Matt's TV Week in Review: Stunts on Grey's and Glee, and More 2012

  • And just so you don't have to rise from a sickbed over the long weekend, I'll try not to be polemical here and require a reply.

    Wisconsin: Dueling statistics about public employees 2011

  • Now suppose the man gets a diagnosis of a terminal illness and takes to the sickbed, waiting to die.

    Sen. Ted Kennedy's right to a Catholic funeral 2009

  • There is a sad and charming story that when Alexander realized he was dying, he secretly dragged himself from his sickbed out of the palace to throw himself into the Euphrates so that he might vanish from the world without a trace.

    Alexander the Great Philip Freeman 2011

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