[ US /bɪˈkɑm/ ]
[ UK /bɪkˈɑːm/ ]
VERB
  1. make steady
    steady yourself
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How To Use becalm In A Sentence

  • The Cats are underdogs for sure, but that unjustifiably huge spread is going to help motivate them and becalm the Pokes. End up like a 'dog that's been beat too much (Jack Bog's Blog)
  • But if the economy was still becalmed then the pressure for Plan B would be much harder to resist. Times, Sunday Times
  • The doctor becalmed the agitated patient.
  • The becalmed and top-heavy boat started to roll heavily.
  • As if one were a balloonist high in the air, imperilled by the wind currents, at times becalmed, perplexed. The Times Literary Supplement
  • Clerks in dusty stores moved with the majestic inertia of tall ships becalmed. Michael Winship: Washington and Change: Cash You Can Believe In
  • High above, sheets of material hang like sails on a becalmed Spanish galleon.
  • On the way, they were becalmed on the Island of the cattle of the sun.
  • In trying to steer a course between education and entertainment, the show ends up becalmed, devoid of the giddy momentum that insight or cheap thrills would provide.
  • He built a fort on Pigeon Island on which he perched his telescope; through which he squinted, discovering to unabated delight that his old French foe, Admiral De Grasse, was becalmed along with his naval fleet.
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