becalmv.
/bɪˈkɑːm/ 1. transitive. To make calm or still; to calm, quiet; figurative to assuage, mitigate, soothe, tranquillize.
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the mind > emotion > calmness > compose or make calm [verb (transitive)]
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the world > action or operation > inaction > quietness or tranquillity > make quiet or tranquil [verb (transitive)]
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1613 Bp. J. Hall Holy Panegyrick 77 Hee..hath becalmed the world, and shut the iron gates of warre.
a1649 W. Drummond Poems (1656) 159 Thou becalm'st Minds easelesse anguish.
1725 E. Fenton in A. Pope et al. tr. Homer Odyssey I. iv. 515 What pow'r becalms th' innavigable seas?
1873 W. S. Mayo Never Again xxxii. 417 Thy medic touch becalms my throbbing brow.
2.
a. Nautical. To shelter from, or deprive (a ship) of, wind; usually in passive to be becalmed: to lie motionless for want of wind.
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society > travel > travel by water > directing or managing a ship > use of wind > get into the current of the wind [verb (transitive)] > keep wind from a ship or becalm
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society > travel > travel by water > directing or managing a ship > use of wind > avail oneself of a wind [verb (intransitive)] > be impeded by wind > be becalmed
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c1595 T. Maynarde Sir Francis Drake his Voy. (1849) 8 Being becalmed under the lee of the land.
1627 J. Smith Sea Gram. xiii. 62 To martiall..those squadrons..a good berth or distance from each other, that they becalme not one another.
1704 in London Gaz. No. 4033/1 The Charles Gally..being becalmed, was attacked.
1855 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. IV. 1 The fleet was becalmed off the Godwin Sands.
b. figurative.
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the world > action or operation > safety > protection or defence > refuge or shelter > seek (refuge) [verb (transitive)] > shelter
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1559 W. Baldwin et al. Myrroure for Magistrates 196 (R.) I and mine becalm'd from hatred's blast.
1672 J. Dryden Conquest Granada i. v. i. 63 'Twas life becalm'd; without a gentle breath.
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