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bedbound

bedbound adjective: unable to leave one's bed (for any reason, such as illness, injury, or disability).

Adjective

bedbound (comparative more bedbound, superlative most bedbound)

  1. Unable to leave one's bed (for any reason, such as illness, injury, or disability).
    • Returning to the sculptor described earlier, we know why that young woman suffered. She was housebound and bedbound, her face was changed by steroids, she was masculinized by her treatment, one breast was scarred, and she had almost no hair.1982 March 18, Eric J. Cassel[l], “The Nature of Suffering and the Goals of Medicine”, in The New England Journal of Medicine, volume 306, number 11, →DOI, page 642
    Synonyms:
    bedridden, bedfast

Synonyms of bedbound

Forms of bedbound

comparativemore bedbound
superlativemost bedbound

Origin of bedbound

From bed + bound.

Questions about bedbound

What does bedbound mean?
Bedbound means unable to leave one's bed (for any reason, such as illness, injury, or disability).
What part of speech is bedbound?
Bedbound is an adjective.

Words near bedbound in the dictionary

  1. Bedbed
  2. bedblocker
  3. bedblockers
  4. bedboard
  5. bedboards
  6. bedbound
  7. bedbox
  8. bedboxes
  9. bedbreaking
  10. Bedbrook
  11. Bedbrooks

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