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bedfast

adj

Etymology

From bed + fast.

  1. derived from fasta
  2. inherited from *fastijaną✻ — “to fasten”
  3. inherited from *fastāną✻ — “to fast”
  4. inherited from *fastēn✻
  5. inherited from fæstan — “to fast”
  6. inherited from fasten
  7. compounded as bedfast — “bed + fast”

Definitions

  1. Unable to leave one's bed, especially because of illness, weakness or obesity.

    • 1948, Robert Heinlein, Space Cadet (1948), from the edition reissued in 1975 by Tom Doherty Associates, LLC: p. 118, lines 13 through 15. "She had been a very active woman... Now she was bed-fast and had been for three years."

  2. A joint or hook that attaches a bedrail to a headboard or footboard.

  3. One who is bedfast.

The neighborhood

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA