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Example sentences from the Web for becalmedWe were becalmed, and in the doldrums, with not a breath of air. The Flying Bo'sun|Arthur Mason The day being unusually fine, Mr. Denison noticed that the sloop was still in sight, becalmed a mile or two off Gibraltar Point. Reminiscences of a Canadian Pioneer for the last Fifty Years|Samuel Thompson They were often becalmed and took months to cross the ocean. The Glories of Ireland|Edited by Joseph Dunn and P.J. Lennox You know the world and life as they really are, and not as they appear to us here, becalmed on the shores of the sea. The House on the Moor, v. 1/3|Mrs. Oliphant
adjective(of a sailing boat or ship) motionless through lack of wind Words nearby becalmedbe bound to, Bebryces, be busted, bec., becalm, becalmed, became, becard, caught with one's pants down, be, because, beccafico Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 Words related to becalmedcompose, relax, placate, steady, quiet, soothe, settle, lull, pacify, allay, still, calm down |