bed down
— phrasal verb with bed uk/bed/us/bed/verb [ T ] -dd-
(SLEEP)
to lie down somewhere, usually somewhere different from where you usually sleep, in order to go to sleep:
I bedded down on the couch for the night.
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Animal physiology: sleep & sleeping
- beauty
- bed
- bunk
- bye-byes
- catnap
- conk
- delayed sleep phase pattern
- disco nap
- hit
- kip
- sleep over
- sleeper
- sleepyhead
- slept
- sound
- soundly
- tuck
- tuck sb in
- turn
- turn in
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(WORK WELL)
If a new process or organization beds down, it starts to operate well because it has existed for long enough:
It did not take the procedure long to bed down.
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Succeeding, achieving and fulfilling
- accomplish
- achieve
- acquit
- actualize
- attain
- bear
- go (off) without a hitch idiom
- go places idiom
- go the whole hog idiom
- grade
- groove
- have the last laugh idiom
- kill
- rise
- sew sth up
- somewhere
- stand out
- streak ahead
- succeed
- sunset
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