1. Middle English formed irregularly from archaic bedrid ‘Bedridden person’, from the base of the verb ride.

2. 8 synonyms for Bedridden: confined to bed, confined, incapacitated, laid up, flat on your back, bedfast, bedrid, sick-abed

3. Bedridden: 1 adj confined to bed (by illness) Synonyms: bedfast , bedrid , sick-abed ill , sick affected by an impairment of normal physical or mental function