take to one's bed en · VERB
Meanings
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(intransitive) To become bedbound due to sickness or infirmity.
By-and-by he took to his bed.
1883 December, Harper’s Magazine, page 135:He liked sometimes to be ill enough to take to his bed.
1920, D. H. Lawrence, chapter 16, in Women in Love:Each day he grew more and more wretched, till at length he took to his bed and never got up.
1901, Andrew Lang, “The Maiden with the Wooden Helmet”, in The Violet Fairy Book:And so the time came when she could move about no longer, and took to her bed.
1873, Charles Dickens, The Poems of Adelaide A. Procter, Introduction:He says he took to his bed for a year and couldn't write.
2008 October 23, David Smith, “Eminem set for comeback”, in New Zealand Herald, retrieved 19 Sep 2011:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| takes to one's bed | Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres | lexicographic | |
| taking to one's bed | Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part | lexicographic | |
| taken to one's bed | Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part | lexicographic | |
| took to one's bed | Tense=Past | lexicographic |
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Translations (2)
ro cădea la pat (to become bedbound due to sickness or infirmity) · hu ágynak esik (to become bedbound due to sickness or infirmity)