"bed down" meaning in English

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      "form": "beds down",
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        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "bedding down",
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        "participle",
        "present"
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    },
    {
      "form": "bedded down",
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  "pos": "verb",
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        {
          "text": "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\nThe herd will tend to stay where the calves bed down."
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          "ref": "2004, Nick Cave, Spell:",
          "text": "Through the woods, and frosted moors\nPast the snow-caked hedgerows I\nBed down upon the drifting snow\nSleep beneath the melting sky.",
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          "text": "The horses will bed down once they get in the stable.",
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        },
        {
          "text": "The tent was an uncomfortable place to bed down."
        }
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      "glosses": [
        "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."
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      "raw_glosses": [
        "(intransitive) 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."
      ],
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          "text": "We'll bed down the cattle and head into town.",
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      "glosses": [
        "To put an animal to rest for the night."
      ],
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        "(transitive) To put an animal to rest for the night."
      ],
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          "text": "Who has she been bedding down with?",
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      "glosses": [
        "To sleep with or sleep alongside (a person or pet)."
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          "sleep with"
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      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive) To sleep with or sleep alongside (a person or pet)."
      ],
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        "transitive"
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          "text": "A habit can easily become bedded down.",
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          "text": "The new batch of employees soon bedded down.",
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      "glosses": [
        "To or become make permanent, fixed or wedded to a particular setup, way of thinking, style or manner."
      ],
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        "(figurative, ambitransitive) To or become make permanent, fixed or wedded to a particular setup, way of thinking, style or manner."
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      "form": "beds down",
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        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "bedding down",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
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    },
    {
      "form": "bedded down",
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    },
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          "text": "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\nThe herd will tend to stay where the calves bed down."
        },
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          "text": "Through the woods, and frosted moors\nPast the snow-caked hedgerows I\nBed down upon the drifting snow\nSleep beneath the melting sky.",
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        },
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          "text": "The horses will bed down once they get in the stable.",
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        },
        {
          "text": "The tent was an uncomfortable place to bed down."
        }
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      "glosses": [
        "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."
      ],
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        "(intransitive) 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."
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          "text": "We'll bed down the cattle and head into town.",
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      "glosses": [
        "To put an animal to rest for the night."
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        "(transitive) To put an animal to rest for the night."
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          "text": "Who has she been bedding down with?",
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      "glosses": [
        "To sleep with or sleep alongside (a person or pet)."
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        "(transitive) To sleep with or sleep alongside (a person or pet)."
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          "text": "The new batch of employees soon bedded down.",
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      "glosses": [
        "To or become make permanent, fixed or wedded to a particular setup, way of thinking, style or manner."
      ],
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        "(figurative, ambitransitive) To or become make permanent, fixed or wedded to a particular setup, way of thinking, style or manner."
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