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BECALMED
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Dictionary entry overview: What does becalmed mean?
• BECALMED (adjective)
The adjective BECALMED has 1 sense:
1. rendered motionless for lack of wind
Familiarity information: BECALMED used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Rendered motionless for lack of wind
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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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