0 the bed of a person who is ill:
We visited my grandmother on her sickbed.
Funerals are public events but both the sickbed and death are confined to the seclusion of the house.
The construction of a house marked the end of her six-year confinement to the sickbed and her miraculous cure by mesmerism.
I suppose that one might say he went from the sickbed to a leadership bid in one astounding leap.
None the less, he is taking a close interest in parliamentary affairs from his sickbed.
These schemes are full of legal jargon, and men on a sickbed will not be able to understand them.
There she is on her sickbed; we wish her well, and of course no discourtesy to her was intended.
However, it is certainly sickbed repentance.
Iboshi did not give up, and on his sickbed arranged an anthology of his poetic works entitled.
