"take to one's bed" meaning in English

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    {
      "form": "takes to one's bed",
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        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "taking to one's bed",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "took to one's bed",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "taken to one's bed",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "args": {
        "1": "take<,,took,taken> to one's bed"
      },
      "expansion": "take to one's bed (third-person singular simple present takes to one's bed, present participle taking to one's bed, simple past took to one's bed, past participle taken to one's bed)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1873, Charles Dickens, The Poems of Adelaide A. Procter, Introduction",
          "text": "And so the time came when she could move about no longer, and took to her bed.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1883 December, Harper’s Magazine, page 135",
          "text": "By-and-by he took to his bed.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1901, Andrew Lang, “The Maiden with the Wooden Helmet”, in The Violet Fairy Book",
          "text": "Each day he grew more and more wretched, till at length he took to his bed and never got up.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1920, D. H. Lawrence, chapter 16, in Women in Love",
          "text": "He liked sometimes to be ill enough to take to his bed.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2008 October 23, David Smith, “Eminem set for comeback”, in New Zealand Herald, retrieved 2011-09-19",
          "text": "He says he took to his bed for a year and couldn't write.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To become bedbound due to sickness or infirmity."
      ],
      "id": "en-take_to_one's_bed-en-verb-V1N-fd4O",
      "links": [
        [
          "bedbound",
          "bedbound#English"
        ],
        [
          "sickness",
          "sickness#English"
        ],
        [
          "infirmity",
          "infirmity#English"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(intransitive) To become bedbound due to sickness or infirmity."
      ],
      "related": [
        {
          "word": "fall ill"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "intransitive"
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "code": "hu",
          "lang": "Hungarian",
          "sense": "to become bedbound due to sickness or infirmity",
          "word": "ágynak esik"
        },
        {
          "code": "ro",
          "lang": "Romanian",
          "sense": "to become bedbound due to sickness or infirmity",
          "word": "cădea la pat"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "take to one's bed"
}

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    {
      "form": "takes to one's bed",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "taking to one's bed",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "took to one's bed",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "taken to one's bed",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "take<,,took,taken> to one's bed"
      },
      "expansion": "take to one's bed (third-person singular simple present takes to one's bed, present participle taking to one's bed, simple past took to one's bed, past participle taken to one's bed)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "fall ill"
    }
  ],
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1873, Charles Dickens, The Poems of Adelaide A. Procter, Introduction",
          "text": "And so the time came when she could move about no longer, and took to her bed.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1883 December, Harper’s Magazine, page 135",
          "text": "By-and-by he took to his bed.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1901, Andrew Lang, “The Maiden with the Wooden Helmet”, in The Violet Fairy Book",
          "text": "Each day he grew more and more wretched, till at length he took to his bed and never got up.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1920, D. H. Lawrence, chapter 16, in Women in Love",
          "text": "He liked sometimes to be ill enough to take to his bed.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2008 October 23, David Smith, “Eminem set for comeback”, in New Zealand Herald, retrieved 2011-09-19",
          "text": "He says he took to his bed for a year and couldn't write.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To become bedbound due to sickness or infirmity."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "bedbound",
          "bedbound#English"
        ],
        [
          "sickness",
          "sickness#English"
        ],
        [
          "infirmity",
          "infirmity#English"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(intransitive) To become bedbound due to sickness or infirmity."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "intransitive"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "to become bedbound due to sickness or infirmity",
      "word": "ágynak esik"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "to become bedbound due to sickness or infirmity",
      "word": "cădea la pat"
    }
  ],
  "word": "take to one's bed"
}