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Adjective: bedridden  'bed,ri-d(u)n
  1. Confined to bed (by illness)
    "Those families with bedridden aged people are far more likely to observe the traditional custom of the three generations living together";
    - bedfast, bedrid [non-standard], sick-abed

See also: ill, sick

Encyclopedia: Bedridden

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