sickbed

[ sik-bed ]

noun

1. the bed used by a sick person.

Word History and Origins

Origin of sickbed¹

late Middle English word dating back to 1375–1425; sick ¹, bed

Example Sentences

His ailing mother emerged from her sickbed to ask reporters for Lana Turner’s address so she could write her a letter.

From Vox

To prove that this was not so, these men wore the clothes of sick people, and even slept on the sheets taken from the sickbed.

From Project Gutenberg

For example, it is not right to leave the sickbed of one dear to us because his pains are unbearable.

From Project Gutenberg

The father lay in the parlor, on his sickbed, and groaned and complained and cursed the hour of his birth.

From Project Gutenberg

For the next month his time was almost wholly taken up by the sickbed, and in the first week of December the end came.

From Project Gutenberg

What he wants to see again, he writes now further from his sickbed, are the simple flowers of our spring.

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