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bedridden adjective [ ˈbɛdrɪd(ə)n ]

• confined to bed by sickness or old age.
Similar: confined to bed, housebound, out of action/commission, disabled, incapacitated, paralysed, immobilized, laid up, flat on one's back,
Origin: Middle English: formed irregularly from archaic bedrid ‘bedridden person’, from the base of the verb ride.

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