单词 | roomridden |
释义 | > as lemmasroom-ridden room-ridden: far-travelled.extracted from riddenadj.room-ridden room-ridden adj. = room-bound adj. ΚΠ ?1835 M. Telfair Let. 24 Feb. in Mary Telfair to Mary Few (2007) §136. 286 She has been room-ridden for a week or two. 1856 C. Dickens Little Dorrit (1857) i. xv. 129 As the room-ridden invalid settled for the night. 1959 R. Campanella It's Good to be Alive xxii. 215 I didn't leave my room for nearly two months, and I was in bed all that time... My nurses said that the other patients kept asking why I remained room-ridden. 2003 G. Lutz I looked Alive 133 Until the thing [sc. a card] got itself claimed, finally, by anyone eye-watery and room-ridden enough to have expected delayed, devout word from somebody. < as lemmas |
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