becalm

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. fiil To make calm or still; make quiet; calm.

   “[…] there is neither house nor landes, nor great store of gold & siluer, nor honor and noblenes of blood, nor greatnes of office, and estate, nor the grace and vehemencie of speach, which doth so much lighten, and so sweetlie becalme the life of man, as an vndefiled conscience […]”

2. fiil To deprive (a ship) of wind, so that it cannot move (usually in passive).

   “In the following two days, they made fast progress, strong easterly winds driving them down the Channel to where it opened out into the Atlantic; there, they were briefly becalmed.”