becalm
/bɪˈkɑːm
/verb [with object]
Leave (a sailing ship) unable to move through lack of wind: both boats hung on before the whole fleet was becalmed south of Rampholme...
- To make the point, he recounted the tale of a group of English merchants who, when their ship was becalmed at the mouth of the Thames decided to go ashore in search of a good breakfast.
- When his ship was becalmed for three days, his men grew alarmed, thinking that they had reached a shore and were in imminent danger of running aground.
- On the way home between Sardinia and Corsica the boat is becalmed and Newman writes a poem.
Synonyms
stranded, stuck, marooned, motionless, at a halt, still, at a standstill, unmoving
Rhymes
- Herefordshire
- here goes
- herein
- hereinafter
- hereinbefore
- hereof
- Herero
- heresiarch
- here's mud in your eye!
- here's to someone/thing
- heresy
- heretic
- heretical
- heretically
- hereto
- here today, gone tomorrow
- heretofore
- hereunder
- hereunto
- hereupon
- Hereward the Wake
- here we are
- here we go again
- herewith
- her indoors