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Definition of 'bed rest'

bed rest in American

a period of resting in bed

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

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Kelly lay back in the bed, exhausted by weeks of bed rest followed by a long day of exertion. Clancy, Tom WITHOUT REMORSE (1993)

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