a place for resting or sleeping, esp a piece of furniture on or in which one may lie and sleep and that usu includes usu including a bedstead, mattress, and bedding

a place of sexual activity

a place for a hospital patient

sleep, or a time for sleeping

a walk before bed

a plot of ground, esp in a garden, prepared for plants

plants grown in such a plot

the bottom of a body of water

the sea bed

an area of a sea or lake bottom supporting a heavy growth of a specified organism

an oyster bed

(often + down) to provide (somebody) with a bed or bedding; to settle (somebody) in sleeping quarters

The children were bedded down for the night

(often + down) to go to bed

to have sexual intercourse with (somebody)

to embed

to fix (something) firmly in something else; to embed

(often + out) to plant or arrange (seedlings, etc) in beds