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- adjective unable to leave one's
bed for some reason
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Examples
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I am a full-time carer of my disabled, bedbound husband.
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Those particular ones, all our bedside rugs, then got to be bed padding for my grandmother when she came home to die, because when you are bedbound they are soft and textured and lovely.
mrissa: 2010: a not-very-carpeted odyssey mrissa 2010
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It's about time bedbound homeless people were taken down a peg or two.
Armando Iannucci: 'Now is not the time for a crap opposition' Stuart Jeffries 2010
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I've been more or less bedbound for a few days and have watched way more "regular" TV than usual.
Archive 2009-01-01 2009
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I am disabled with RA and nerve issues so unfortunately I become bedbound quite often.
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I ended up taking three but, because I was bedbound with severe muscle fatigue, I had to take them at my kitchen table, as I couldn't leave the house.
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I was expecting to be bedbound for a bit, and that has not been so.
Monday shellefly 2009
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I've been more or less bedbound for a few days and have watched way more "regular" TV than usual.
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The characters in The Norman Conquests are at the beck and call of the bedbound mother upstairs.
Life of Riley 2010
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It was her afternoon for calls, three of them to be made to elderly bedbound patients, the fourth to Joel.
Portobello Ruth Rendell 2010
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