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(transitive, obsolete) To make calm or still; make quiet; calm. / (transitive, nautical) To deprive (a ship) of wind, so that it cannot move (usually in passive).

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becalm

/bɪˈkɑːm/

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The gentle breeze becalmed the sailboat.

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(transitive, obsolete) To make calm or still; make quiet; calm.

[…] there is neither house nor landes, nor great store of gold & siluer, nor honor and noblenes of blood, nor greatnes of office, and estate, nor the grace and vehemencie of speach, which doth so much lighten, and so sweetlie becalme the life of man, as an vndefiled conscience […]

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