becalm

[ bih-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 of becalm

1
First recorded in 1550–60; be- + calm

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