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bedfast

[bed-fast, -fahst] / ˈbɛdˌfæst, -ˌfɑst /


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First, a cumbersome external device that will keep the patient bedfast.

From Time Magazine Archive

The enemy that made General Douglas MacArthur a bedfast hospital casualty last week is as common as it is mysterious.

From Time Magazine Archive

Here and there a bedfast invalid screamed foolishly.

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He first tried it three years ago on a young woman patient in Houston who had been bedfast six years with arthritic swellings in both knees.

From Time Magazine Archive

So there he was, bedfast for about three months; but, of course, he begun to enjoy his accident long before that—almost as soon as he come to, in fact.

From Ma Pettengill by Wilson, Harry Leon