sick-abed
- s confined to bed (by illness)
- The musicians of Amsterdam's distinguished old Concertgebouw protested when the orchestra manager picked Paul van Kempen to take the place of their sick-abed regular conductor.
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- Abraham Lincoln in BBC News
On being informed that his father was ill, Lincoln wrote: "My business is such that I could hardly leave home now, if it were not, as it is, that my own wife is sick-abed."