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bedfast

/bed-fast, -fahst/US // ˈbɛdˌfæst, -ˌfɑst //UK // (ˈbɛdˌfɑːst) //

卧具,卧铺,卧床不起,卧病在床

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1

    Chiefly Midland and Western U.S.

    • : confined to bed, as by illness or age; bedridden.

Synonyms & Antonyms

as inconfined

Examples

  • Every now and then for a good many years he's had a bedfast spell.

  • Early in the new year he became bedfast and suffered excruciatingly at times.

  • I have a daughter in that room who has been ill and bedfast for more than two years.

  • She had barely recovered from the illness that kept her bedfast during the exciting days of the strike.

  • She had wondered about Parkins, still bedfast, but no inkling had come to her ears of his perfidious intentions toward herself.