Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Confined to one's room. Compare bedridden.

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Examples

  • As the room-ridden invalid settled for the night, these would gradually disappear: Mistress Affery's magnified shadow always flitting about, last, until it finally glided away into the air, as though she were off upon a witch excursion.

    Little Dorrit Charles Dickens 1841

  • "I was room-ridden - my immune system was so low while I was in the hospital that I couldn't leave my room for any reason," Schwartz said.

    Yale Daily News - Latest Issue 2010

  • "I was room-ridden - my immune system was so low while I was in the hospital that I couldn't leave my room for any reason," Schwartz said.

    Yale Daily News - Latest Issue 2010

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