bedridden
/ˈbɛdrɪd(ə)n
/adjective
Confined to bed by sickness or old age.It saved his life but left him severely disabled: unable to speak, bedridden, and paralysed for eight months before he died....
- He was bedridden and immobile, and literally nothing but skin and bone by the end.
- Anatoli, 38, has been bedridden for the last two years, crippled by the same disease.
Synonyms
confined to bed, housebound, out of action/commission;
disabled, incapacitated, paralysed, immobilized
informal laid up, flat on one's back
Origin
Middle English: formed irregularly from archaic bedrid 'bedridden person', from the base of the verb ride.