bedridden

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   unable to leave one's bed because of illness, injury, age, or weakness

   After the operation, he was bedridden for nearly a month.

From Middle English bedreden and related forms, continuing Old English bedreda or bedrida, literally a 'bed-rider,' from bed + rida, 'rider.' The ending was later reshaped as -ridden by analogy with past-participial adjectives.

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