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What (who) is BECALM - definition


becalm      
v. a.
1.
Quiet, soothe, still, calm, tranquillize, pacify, appease, make calm, make tranquil.
2.
Detain by a calm (as a ship), affect, overtake, or surround by a calm.
Becalm      
·vt To keep from motion, or stop the progress of, by the stilling of the wind; as, the fleet was becalmed.
II. Becalm ·vt To render calm or quiet; to Calm; to Still; to Appease.
becalm      
¦ verb leave (a sailing ship) unable to move through lack of wind.
Examples of use of BECALM
1. But it probably won‘t becalm that quarter, and it won‘t stop the migration.