Becalm

Quick meaning: Becalm is a verb meaning (transitive, obsolete) To make calm or still; make quiet; calm.

Meaning

(transitive, obsolete) To make calm or still; make quiet; calm.

More Meanings

1. (transitive, nautical) To deprive (a ship) of wind, so that it cannot move (usually in passive).

Example Sentences

Almighty Beauty quite becalms my Rage: In looking on thee, I forget thy Crimes:

“Pardon me,” he said, with a quietness that struck the company with a becalming awe.

In the following two days, they made fast progress, strong easterly winds driving them down the Channel to where it opened out into the Atlantic; there, they were briefly becalmed.

[…] there is neither house nor landes, nor great store of gold & siluer, nor honor and noblenes of blood, nor greatnes of office, and estate, nor the grace and vehemencie of speach, which doth so much lighten, and so sweetlie becalme the life of man, as an vndefiled conscience […]

Word Forms

• becalms
• becalming
• becalmed

Synonyms for becalm

Depending on context, synonyms include calm, steady.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include calm, steady, encalm, calmen, bequiet, bestill.

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