An archaic or dialectal term meaning confined to bed due to illness or age; bedridden.
From 'bed' + 'rid' (from Old English 'rīdan,' to ride or be carried, used in the sense of 'beset' or 'troubled'). An earlier form of 'bedridden.'
'Bedrid' is an ancestor of 'bedridden'—as time went on, English speakers added '-den' (like in 'ridden') to make 'bedridden' clearer, showing how language simplifies over centuries!
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