becalmed
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English[edit]
Adjective[edit]
becalmed (comparative more becalmed, superlative most becalmed)
- (nautical) (of a sailing ship) unable to move due to lack of wind
- 1638 Herbert, Sir Thomas Some years travels into divers parts of Asia and Afrique
- ...when we got aſterne we grew becalm'd, land-lockt in a fort, and were ſported all the way...
- 1883: Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island
- 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.
- 1638 Herbert, Sir Thomas Some years travels into divers parts of Asia and Afrique
Verb[edit]
becalmed
- simple past tense and past participle of becalm