SICKBED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does sickbed mean? 

• SICKBED (noun)
  The noun SICKBED has 1 sense:

1. the bed on which a sick person lies

  Familiarity information: SICKBED used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SICKBED (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The bed on which a sick person lies

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("sickbed" is a kind of...):

bed (a piece of furniture that provides a place to sleep)

 Context examples 

She attended her sickbed; her watchful attentions triumphed over the malignity of the distemper—Elizabeth was saved, but the consequences of this imprudence were fatal to her preserver.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

I figure to myself that the task of attending on your sickbed has devolved on some mercenary old nurse, who could never guess your wishes nor minister to them with the care and affection of your poor cousin.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)