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Complete Definition of "becalmed"

English
Adjective
en-adj
#nautical (of a sailing ship) unable to move due to lack of wind
#* 1883: w:Robert Louis Stevenson|Robert Louis Stevenson, w:Treasure Island|Treasure Island
#*: 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.

Verb
becalmed
#past of|becalm

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