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take to one's bed

take to one's bed verb: to become bedbound due to sickness or infirmity.

Verb

take to one's bed (third-person singular simple present takes to one's bed, present participle taking to one's bed, simple past took to one's bed, past participle taken to one's bed)

  1. (intransitive) To become bedbound due to sickness or infirmity.
    • And so the time came when she could move about no longer, and took to her bed.1873, Charles Dickens, The Poems of Adelaide A. Procter, Introduction
    • By-and-by he took to his bed.1883 December, Harper’s Magazine, page 135

Forms of take to one's bed

third-person singular presenttakes to one's bed
present participletaking to one's bed
pasttook to one's bed
past participletaken to one's bed

Questions about take to one's bed

What does take to one's bed mean?
Take to one's bed means to become bedbound due to sickness or infirmity.
What part of speech is take to one's bed?
Take to one's bed is a verb.
What is the past tense of take to one's bed?
The past tense of take to one's bed is took to one's bed.

Words near take to one's bed in the dictionary

  1. take time out
  2. take to
  3. take to court
  4. take to drink
  5. take to heart
  6. take to one's bed
  7. take to one's bosom
  8. take to one's heels
  9. take to one's scrapers
  10. take to pound town
  11. take to task

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