Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Confined to one's room. Compare
bedridden .
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Examples
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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
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"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.
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"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.
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