bed down phrasal verb (see also bed)

1. to sleep somewhere which is not your bed and where you do not usually sleep:
Can I bed down on your sofa?

2. bed somebody/something ↔ down to make a person or animal comfortable in a place where they do not usually sleep

3. if a new system or arrangement beds down, problems with it are solved and it gradually starts to work in the way that it should

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