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abed

[uh-bed] / əˈbɛd /


ADJECTIVE
sleeping
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But we have also filled our cemeteries with those who defied the remedies of sunshine and citrus, and died abed anyway.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 27, 2024

Above the narrow little room where May and Timothy sit plotting, their father lies abed, his wits gone haywire.

From New York Times • Oct. 19, 2021

I began to notice I was losing sleep about a decade ago − at first just a little top-and-tailing of the main period of repose, so I lay abed an hour or so less.

From BBC • Sep. 19, 2015

“Respectable” women were abed and largely avoided Whitechapel to begin with.

From Slate • Sep. 11, 2014

I stared at him as I lay abed and I knew that he considered me a clever and sworn enemy of the party.

From "Black Boy" by Richard Wright