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BECALM
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Dictionary entry overview: What does becalm mean?
• BECALM (verb)
The verb BECALM has 1 sense:
1. make steady
Familiarity information: BECALM used as a verb is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
| Conjugation: |
... he / she / it becalms Past simple: becalmed
Past participle: becalmed
-ing form: becalming
Sense 1
Meaning:
Make steady
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Synonyms:
Context example:
steady yourself
Hypernyms (to "becalm" is one way to...):
stabilise; stabilize (become stable or more stable)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody
Something ----s something
Context examples
The two ships becalmed on a torpid sea, I believed to be marine phantoms.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
Although the breeze had now utterly ceased, we had made a great deal of way during the night and were now lying becalmed about half a mile to the south-east of the low eastern coast.
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
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