becalmed, ppl. a.
(bɪˈkɑːmd)
[f. becalm v. + -ed.]
a. Calmed, quieted, stilled. b. Motionless for want of wind.
| a 1667 Cowley Solit. Wks. 1710 II. 693 They're like a becalmed Ship. a 1674 Clarendon Hist. Reb. III. xv. 491 The silence..of a becalm'd Conscience. a 1700 Dryden (J.) The moon shone clear on the becalmed flood. |