Definition of "bedfast" []

• Confined to bed; bedridden. (adjective)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "When the visitors stopped coming, Mamaw fell into depression, went bedfast."
• "Or Jim McQuiggin, in Ireland, nursing his completely helpless, bedfast wife, twenty-four hours a day, year after year."
• "And her father and mother, sister died with tuberculosis, set it on me and I was bedfast five months."