Definitions for bedded

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bedded bed·ded

Spelling: [bed-id]

IPA: /ˈbɛd ɪd/

Bedded is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 29 anagrams from letters in bedded (bdddee).

Definitions for bedded

noun

1. a piece of furniture upon which or within which a person sleeps, rests, or stays when not well.
2. the mattress and bedclothes together with the bedstead of a bed.
3. the bedstead alone.
4. the act of or time for sleeping:
5. the use of a bed for the night; lodging:
6. the marital relationship.
7. any resting place:
8. something resembling a bed in form or position.
9. a piece or area of ground in a garden or lawn in which plants are grown.
10. an area in a greenhouse in which plants are grown.
11. the plants in such areas.
12. the bottom of a lake, river, sea, or other body of water.
13. a piece or part forming a foundation or base.
14. a layer of rock; a stratum.
15. a foundation surface of earth or rock supporting a track, pavement, or the like:
16. Building Trades. the underside of a stone, brick, slate, tile, etc., laid in position. the upper side of a stone laid in position. the layer of mortar in which a brick, stone, etc., is laid. the natural stratification of a stone:
17. Furniture. skirt (def 6b).
18. the flat surface in a printing press on which the form of type is laid.
19. Transportation. the body or, sometimes, the floor or bottom of a truck or trailer.
20. Chemistry. a compact mass of a substance functioning in a reaction as a catalyst or reactant.
21. Sports. the canvas surface of a trampoline. the smooth, wooden floor of a bowling alley. the slate surface of a billiard table to which the cloth is fastened.
22. Zoology. flesh enveloping the base of a claw, especially the germinative layer beneath the claw.
23. Also called mock, mock mold. Shipbuilding. a shaped steel pattern upon which furnaced plates for the hull of a vessel are hammered to shape.
24. bed and board.

Idioms

1. get up on the wrong side of the bed, to be irritable or bad-tempered from the start of a day:
2. go to bed, to retire, especially for the night. to engage in sexual relations.
3. go to bed with, to have sexual intercourse with.
4. in bed, beneath the covers of a bed. engaged in sexual intercourse.
5. jump / get into bed with, to form a close, often temporary, alliance, usually with an unlikely ally:
6. make a bed, to fit a bed with sheets and blankets.
7. make one's bed, to be responsible for one's own actions and their results:
8. put to bed, to help (a child, invalid, etc.) go to bed. Printing. to lock up (forms) in a press in preparation for printing. to work on the preparation of (an edition of a newspaper, periodical, etc.) up to the time of going to press.

adjective

1. of or relating to rocks that exhibit bedding.

Verb phrases

1. bed down, to make a bed for (a person, animal, etc.). to retire to bed:

verb (used with object)

1. to provide with a bed.
2. to put to bed.
3. Horticulture. to plant in or as in a bed.
4. to lay flat.
5. to place in a bed or layer:
6. to embed, as in a substance:
7. to take or accompany to bed for purposes of sexual intercourse.

verb (used without object)

1. to have sleeping accommodations:
2. Geology. to form a compact layer or stratum.
3. (of a metal structural part) to lie flat or close against another part.
4. Archaic. to go to bed.

Origin of bedded

First recorded in 1820-30; bed + -ed³

Examples for bedded

Charles was succeeded by his brother James II, who was even more promiscuous, and was said to have bedded over a thousand women.

The herd of some 2000 steers was bedded down, and had so far given no trouble.

As with columns, the joints at base and necking are bedded in sheet lead.

And did I mention that his memoir, filled with tales of the women he has bedded, is called Exposing Myself?

By surrendering her virtue to Charles, Camilla had surrendered her right to marry him—the bedded could not be wedded.

Some of that was bedded down by the Libyan Investment Authority.

I'll finger it, when bedded cold Where never one shall rise.

He took him in his arms to comfort him, and bedded him down on the pillow.

I bedded down for this debate, Scotch in hand, expecting to be bored five ways to rigor mortis.

I bedded down about eleven, and to my surprise I slept well.