Definition of "abed" []

• In bed. (adverb)

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• "Fie upon thee, thou cur! all this is of thy doings; thou hast wounded my heart s darling and thereby worked me sore woe and thou hast wasted his youth so that these three years he hath lain abed more dead than alive!"
• ""If we had lain abed till the usual time," said Solomon John, "we should have been all right.""
• ""She's lyin 'abed, and so far from bein' well that she'll never be well again.""