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sickbed - definition and meaning
Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
noun
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noun bed used by a person who is sick .noun convalescence .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
noun
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Examples
His friends described his last three weeks in sickbed , attended to by them and members of his family.
Haibun: Elegy for Caroline Neal Whitman 2010
He could not walk and had to be carried by his servants into the Long Lane meeting house.25 Rising from his sickbed was an act of will.
Ratification Pauline Maier 2010
He could not walk and had to be carried by his servants into the Long Lane meeting house.25 Rising from his sickbed was an act of will.
Ratification Pauline Maier 2010
He could not walk and had to be carried by his servants into the Long Lane meeting house.25 Rising from his sickbed was an act of will.
Ratification Pauline Maier 2010
This one, The House On Tradd Street by Karen White, came from a friend and being on my "sickbed " with a sore throat I was reading anything that came my way.
Epinions Recent Content for Home 2009
This one, The House On Tradd Street by Karen White, came from a friend and being on my "sickbed " with a sore throat I was reading anything that came my way.
Epinions Recent Content for Home 2009
If only Matthew could rise from his sickbed and give this snake a pounding.
Matt's TV Week in Review: Stunts on Grey's and Glee, and More 2012
And just so you don't have to rise from a sickbed over the long weekend, I'll try not to be polemical here and require a reply.
Wisconsin: Dueling statistics about public employees 2011
Now suppose the man gets a diagnosis of a terminal illness and takes to the sickbed , waiting to die.
Sen. Ted Kennedy's right to a Catholic funeral 2009
There is a sad and charming story that when Alexander realized he was dying, he secretly dragged himself from his sickbed out of the palace to throw himself into the Euphrates so that he might vanish from the world without a trace.
Alexander the Great Philip Freeman 2011
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