What does becalmed mean?
Becalmed means simple past and past participle of becalm.
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Pronunciation varies by accent · verb
simple past and past participle of becalm.
[…] when we got aſterne we grew becalm'd, land-lockt in a fort, and were ſported all the way […]
Although the breeze had now utterly failed, we had made a great deal of way during the night, and were now lying becalmed about half a mile to the southeast of the low eastern coast.
Use becalmed when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Becalmed means simple past and past participle of becalm.
Common synonyms include unmoving, nonmoving.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
[…] when we got aſterne we grew becalm'd, land-lockt in a fort, and were ſported all the way […]
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