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Grapepark Posted 12 years ago
Vocabulary

The verbs for "sickbed"

What verbs do we use for sickbed?
Foe example is it right? He got ill and fell into sickbed.
  

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shininggirl Foe example is it right? He got ill and fell into sickbed No. I don't think we use a particular verb for it, really: it is just a condition or location: - He has the slightly hunched shoulders of a man who has sat by many a sickbed.

— Mister Micawber

  • shininggirl Foe example is it right?
  • He got ill and fell into sickbed No.
  • I don't think we use a particular verb for it, really: it is just a condition or location: - He has the slightly hunched shoulders of a man who has sat by many a sickbed.
  • - Caledonia didn't look so hot herself, crawling out of a sickbed and standing in the driveway, barefoot.
  • - Kennan, at home in his Moscow sickbed, was getting pinged from Washington about a speech Stalin had given - Nurses witness patients as humans with all their quirks and attributes.
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shininggirlFoe example is it right? He got ill and fell into sickbed
No. I don't think we use a particular verb for it, really: it is just a condition or location:

- He has the slightly hunched shoulders of a man who has sat by many a sickbed.
- Caledonia didn't look so hot herself, crawling out of a sickbed and standing in the driveway
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So can I say "... and he had to stay in sickbed."
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