Meaning & use
bedridden
Confined to bed because of illness, injury, or old age.
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After the surgery, he was bedridden for nearly three weeks.
Her grandmother has been bedridden since the stroke last winter.
A note on using this word
Bedridden implies a longer-term condition, unlike simply resting in bed for a day or two.
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