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To lie down to sleep for the night, usually of livestock or machinery, or of people when sleeping somewhere worse than normal, often camping or in prison.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: intransitive
Examples
- 2006, Temple Grandin, Jennifer Lanier and Mark Deesing, Low Stress Methods for Moving and Herding Cattle on Pastures, Paddocks and Large Feedlot Pens, Department of Animal Sciences, Colorado State University The herd will tend to stay where the calves bed down.
- The horses will bed down once they get in the stable.
- The tent was an uncomfortable place to bed down.
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To put an animal to rest for the night.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
Examples
- We'll bed down the cattle and head into town.
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To sleep with or sleep alongside (a person or pet).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
Examples
- Who has she been bedding down with?
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To or become make permanent, fixed or wedded to a particular setup, way of thinking, style or manner.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: ambitransitive, figuratively
Examples
- A habit can easily become bedded down.
- The new batch of employees soon bedded down.
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go to bed
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- We bedded down at midnight
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: bunk down
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: go to bed, turn in, bed, crawl in, kip down, hit the hay, hit the sack, sack out, go to sleep, retire
Narrower terms: doss, doss down, crash
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