# bedded

Pronunciation: say "BED-id" /ˈbɛdɪd/

## Verb

1. Simple past and past participle of bed. — simple past and past participle of bed
   - Simple: Simple past and past participle of bed. Use this form for an action that already happened.
   - _They bedded the new shrubs along the fence last fall._
   - _The cables were bedded in a trench beneath the road._

## Adjective

2. Furnished with one or more beds, or with a stated number or type of beds.
   - Simple: Having beds in it, ready for people to sleep.
   - _The new hospital wing is fully bedded and ready to admit patients._
   - _Each holiday lodge is generously bedded for a family of five._
3. Forming or containing horizontal layers, as a deposit of mineral or ore laid down in flat sheets.
   - Simple: Lying in flat layers, the way rock or coal sits underground.
   - _The bedded ironstone could be traced clearly across the whole hillside._
   - _Miners followed the bedded ore wherever the seam dipped underground._
4. Growing in or arranged within a bed: a plot or area where plants, seaweed, or shellfish are gathered together in numbers.
   - Simple: Planted or grouped together in one patch, like a garden bed.
   - _She admired the carefully bedded herbs outside the kitchen door._
   - _Harvesters worked the bedded mussels at low tide along the estuary._
5. Having a floor covered with straw, sand, woodchips, or similar bedding material.
   - Simple: Having a floor covered with straw, sand, or wood chips.
   - _A deeply bedded pen helps keep the piglets dry and comfortable._
   - _The kennels were thickly bedded with clean wood shavings each morning._
6. Lying flat or pressed down against a surface.
   - Simple: Lying flat against a surface, pressed down.
   - _Wind and rain left the bedded barley flattened across the field._
   - _The hikers found a patch of bedded reeds by the water's edge._
7. Having sexual experience; no longer a virgin.
   - Simple: Describes someone who has had sex and is no longer a virgin.
   - _By the customs of the court, a bedded queen was expected to produce an heir._
   - _He spoke of her as a bedded woman, worldly and unafraid of judgment._
8. Having already gone to bed for the night.
   - Simple: Already in bed for the night.
   - _The guests were all bedded long before the storm reached the coast._
   - _Once the patients were bedded, the night nurse dimmed the ward lights._

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