bed — OAT · Shobdo

bed

noun

1 she undressed and climbed into her bed:

couch, berth, billet;

informal the sack, the hay;

British, informal one's pit;

Scottish, informal kip.

2 a flower bed:

patch, plot, area, lot, space, border, strip, row.

3 the sidewalk consists of granite blocks set on a bed of cement:

base, basis, foundation, support, prop, stay, bottom, core, substructure, substratum;

groundwork.

4 the bed of the stream:

bottom, floor, ground, depths.

□ go to bed

retire, call it a day, bed down;

go to sleep, get some sleep, sleep, nap, have/take a nap, catnap, doze, have a doze;

informal hit the sack, hit the hay, turn in, snooze, snatch forty winks, get some shut-eye;

British, informal kip, have a kip, get some kip, hit the pit;

North American, informal catch some Zs;

literary slumber.

▷antonyms get up, rise.

□ go to bed with someone

have sex with, have sexual intercourse with, make love to, sleep with, spend the night with;

couple with, mate with;

informal bed, score with;

euphemistic have one's (wicked) way with;

formal copulate with;

formal fornicate with.

verb

1 the tiles are bedded in mortar:

embed, set, fix into, insert, inlay, implant, bury, base, plant, settle.

2 I bedded out a few of the houseplants in a prominent position in the garden:

plant, plant out, set in beds/soil, put in the ground, set out, transplant.

□ bed down

go to bed, retire, call it a day;

go to sleep, get some sleep, sleep, nap, have/take a nap, catnap, doze, have a doze;

informal hit the sack, hit the hay, turn in, snooze, snatch forty winks, get some shut-eye;

British, informal kip, have a kip, get some kip, hit the pit;

North American, informal catch some Zs;

literary slumber.

word links	bed
clinophobia fear of beds