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Abed vs Abud - What's the difference?

abed | abud |

As an adverb abed

is in bed, or on the bed; confined to bed.

As an adjective abud is

budding.

abed

English

Adverb

(en adverb)
  • In bed, or on the bed; confined to bed.
  • * (William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616),(Twelfth Night), II, iii
    • Not to be abed after midnight
  • *{{quote-book, year=1922, author=(Michael Arlen), title=[http://openlibrary.org/works/OL1519647W “Piracy”: A Romantic Chronicle of These Days], chapter=Ep./4/2
    • , passage=The world was awake to the 2nd of May, but Mayfair is not the world, and even the menials of Mayfair lie long abed .}}
  • To childbed
  • * (William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616), (Titus Andronicus), IV, ii
    • "I mean, she's brought a-bed "

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    abud

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • (rare) budding
  • * Julie M. Lippmann, Dreamland
    • he began to whistle merrily, and in an instant the whole world about him was bright of hue and joyous again, and looking, he saw, to his amazement, that the bare branches were abud .
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