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English
Verb
becalmed
- simple past and past participle of becalm
Adjective
becalmed (comparative more becalmed, superlative most becalmed)
- (nautical, of a sailing ship) Unable to move due to lack of wind.
1638, Thomas Herbert, 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 […]
1881–1882, Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island, London; Paris: Cassell & Company, published 14 November 1883, →OCLC: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.
Derived terms
Translations
unable to move due to lack of wind