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becalmed

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be·calm

   [bih-kahm]
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.
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Origin:
1550–60; be- + calm
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becalmed (bɪˈkɑːmd)
 
—adj
(of a sailing boat or ship) motionless through lack of wind

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becalm
1550s, from be- + calm (q.v.).
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