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bed rots

bed rots is the third-person singular simple present indicative of bed rot.

Meaning of bed rot

Verb

bed rot (third-person singular simple present bed rots, present participle bed rotting, simple past and past participle bed rotted)

  1. (Internet) To lie in bed without engaging in activities, especially as a form of self-care (either adaptive or maladaptive).
    • You are quite capable of coping with the world — you’re not hiding from responsibility or commitments — but you don’t fancy it right now and have nothing to prove to anyone. You can bed rot for hours, days, or even a full weekend.2023 June 9, Martha Alexander, “Is ‘bed rotting’ the new goblin mode in 2023?”, in The Standard, archived from the original on 11 Mar 2024

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Questions about bed rots

What is bed rots the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Bed rots is the third-person singular simple present indicative of bed rot.

Words near bed rots in the dictionary

  1. bed rest
  2. bed rests
  3. bed room
  4. bed rooms
  5. bed rot
  6. bed rots
  7. bed rotted
  8. bed rotting
  9. bed ruffle
  10. bed ruffles
  11. bed runner

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Adapted from Wiktionary: bed rots (page history and authors); bed rot (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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