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Examples of becalm
becalm
She is said to frequently becalm the sea when boats are threatened with rocks.
From the en.wikipedia.org
Watching them go about their work on Saturday, trying to becalm the firestorm started by Williams, it was hard not to look on them as lions led by donkeys.
From the guardian.co.uk
But the legacy of the London Games may lie in something more imponderable, a finer sense of a nation relaunched, albeit in a time of economic doldrums that could yet becalm its renewal.
From the nytimes.com
The fund also administers the Country House and Hospital, which is not equipped to accommodate any behavioral explosion since one of the principal missions here is to becalm.
From the time.com
Heading farther south they stalled in the doldrums-a zone close to the equator that can becalm ships and rattle aircraft-for nearly a month, before a sturdy wind carried them to Brazil in 20 days.
From the economist.com
- Steady: make steady; "steady yourself"
- (becalmed) rendered motionless for lack of wind
- (Becalmed) Having no Wind to fill the Sails. The Ship being deprived of the Power of the Wind by the intervention of high land, a larger Ship, &c.
- (Becalmed) A ship, boat, etc that is kept from moving because there is no wind
- To intercept the wind. A vessel or highland to windward is said to becalm another. So one sail becalms another.
- To, v. t. thanda karna; razi karni ; dhina ; karna, thama dena ;
