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"was bedridden" is correct and usable in written English.
It is used to describe someone who was confined to a bed because of illness or injury. For example, "The elderly woman was bedridden due to a severe fracture in her leg."
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Once more, he was bedridden.
He was bedridden and could not eat.
"I was bedridden for three days".
A few months later, she was bedridden and nearly blind.
I was bedridden with all of my limbs immobilized.
"I was bedridden for years, depressed and alone," she said.
For a year or so she was bedridden,….
When Ms. Hudgins's mother was bedridden, he took care of her.
His father was an invalid, with a wound in his hip, and he was bedridden.
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Many patients are bedridden.
"He had been bedridden," Mr. Kramer said.
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