bed
/bɛd/ verb C2- To go to bed; to put oneself to sleep. · I usually listen to music before I bed.
- To place in a bed.
- To furnish with a bed or bedding.
- To have sex (with).
- Of large game animals: to be at rest.
- To lay or put in any hollow place, or place of rest and security, surrounded or enclosed; to embed. · 1810/1835, William Wordsworth, Guide to the Lakes Among all chains or clusters of mountains where large bodies of still water are bedded.
- To set in a soft matrix, as paving stones in sand, or tiles in cement.
- To set out (plants) in a garden bed.
He/she/it beds · Past bedded · Past participle bedded · -ing form bedding
Verb forms
- Base form
- bed
- He/she/it
- beds
- Past
- bedded
- Past participle
- bedded
- -ing form
- bedding
Phrasal verbs and expressions
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Dorothy had only one other dress, but that happened to be clean and was hanging on a peg beside her bed.
Within a short time she was walking briskly toward the Emerald City, her silver shoes tinkling merrily on the hard, yellow road-bed.
Toto jumped out of Dorothy’s arms and hid under the bed, and the girl started to get him.
She was awakened by a shock, so sudden and severe that if Dorothy had not been lying on the soft bed she might have been hurt.
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