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be⋅calm

  [bi-kahm]
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–verb (used with object)
1. to deprive (a sailing vessel) of the wind necessary to move it; subject to a calm: The schooner was becalmed in the horse latitudes for two weeks.
2. Archaic. to calm; pacify.
Origin:
1550–60; be- + calm
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be·calm   (bĭ-käm')   
tr.v.   be·calmed, be·calm·ing, be·calms
  1. To render motionless for lack of wind: "Across the harbor, a small sailing skiff, becalmed near some reeds, caught the breeze again" (Horace Freeland Judson).
  2. To make calm or still; soothe.
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2009 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
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Becalm

Be*calm"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Becalmed (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Becalming.]

1. To render calm or quiet; to calm; to still; to appease.

Soft whispering airs . . . becalm the mind. --Philips.

2. To keep from motion, or stop the progress of, by the stilling of the wind; as, the fleet was becalmed.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
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becalm 
1559, from be- + calm (q.v.).
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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