bedded down
Got comfortably situated
To bed down is to settle into a place for sleep or rest, whether literally or figuratively.
Animals bed down in straw; campers bed down in sleeping bags.
The phrase extends to getting comfortably established: Once the new system has bedded down, we'll evaluate its performance.
Bedded down is the past tense: The horses were bedded down for the night.
- tucked inMade cozy for sleep
- slumberLight, restful unconsciousness
- hit the hayGo to sleep, informally
- turned inSubmitted or went bedward
- lights outMandatory sleep time
snooze · prepare · organize · settle · settled in · hibernate · lodge · repose · entrench · dug in · secure · nap · arrange · quarter · ground · doze · camp · set up camp
bedded downuprooted
Removed from foundation
displaced · unsettled · in transit · rootless · homeless
bedded downon alert
standing watch · on duty · at the ready · on guard · mobilized
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