Definitions

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  • Without a bed.

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  • adjective Without a bed or beds.

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  • adjective without a bed

Etymologies

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bed +‎ -less

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Examples

  • We should have tortured him, deprived him of sleep and food, and played Metallica loudly at all hours during his stay in a bedless, cold steel cell!

    Think Progress » Thanks To Obama’s Rejection Of Torture, Abdulmuttalab Has Been Providing Intel On Al Qaeda 2010

  • It is a building where the homeless, bedless, penniless man, if he be lucky, may CASUALLY rest his weary bones, and then work like a navvy next day to pay for it.

    A WINNER OF THE VICTORIA CROSS 2010

  • Earlier reports in the same magazine on December 13 and 14 described her ordeal and suggested her case was similar to others, one involving a young Icelandic mother and her 8-year-old daughter who were reportedly held in a dirty, bedless room for 15 hours prior to being deported.

    Icelandic woman chained on arrival at JFK for 1995 overstay 2007

  • Rudely puffed the winds of heaven; roguishly clomb up the all-destructive urchin; and, lo! in a moment night re-established her void empire, and the cit groped along the wall, suppered but bedless, occult from guidance, and sorrily wading in the kennels.

    Virginibus Puerisque and other papers 2005

  • Personally she didn't care where she slept, even if it was a normally unused bedless room, just so long as she occupied it on her own.

    The Demetrios Virgin Jordan, Penny 2001

  • Its movement when it saw me, raised that head and slivered forward, was like flowing water-living water, it seemed, a bedless river without banks.

    Sign of the Unicorn Zelazny, Roger 1975

  • Love is represented as homeless, bedless and barefooted: would not that be a shabby description of the Kosmos and quite out of the truth?

    The Six Enneads. Plotinus 1952

  • "Get some water heated," said I; and the wretchedness of our bedless bed and furnitureless room crossed my mind at the same time.

    Select Temperance Tracts American Tract Society

  • Plaza, see more masks, hear more guitars and "catch-this-rat!" and finally return, in a hired _volante_, to the Ensor House, where rest and the bedless cots await us.

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 25, November, 1859 Various

  • The Hungerstraf I found to consist of confinement to a bedless and fireless barrack on a diet of pure and undiluted water.

    The Memoirs of a Swine in the Land of Kultur 1919

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