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bed-fast

bed-fast is the alternative spelling of bedfast.

Meaning of bedfast

Adjective

bedfast (comparative more bedfast, superlative most bedfast)

  1. Unable to leave one's bed, especially because of illness, weakness or obesity.
    • For these eight or ten months I have been ailing, sometimes bedfast and sometimes not; but these last three months I have been tortured with an excruciating rheumatism, which has reduced me to nearly the last stage.1796, Robert Burns, letter written to Mr. Cunningham, 7 July, 1796, in The Prose Works of Robert Burns; Containing his Letters and Correspondence, Newcastle-upon-Tyne: Mackenzie & Dent, 1819, p. 278...
    Synonyms:
    bedbound, bedridden

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Forms of bed-fast

pluralbed-fasts

Questions about bed-fast

What is bed-fast the alternative spelling of?
Bed-fast is the alternative spelling of bedfast.

Words near bed-fast in the dictionary

  1. bed-closet
  2. bed-closets
  3. bed-clothes
  4. bed-cover
  5. bed-covers
  6. bed-fast
  7. bed-fasts
  8. bed-frame
  9. bed-frames
  10. bed-gowned
  11. bed-headed

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