becalmed

Describes a sailing ship that is unable to move due to a lack of wind.

• 🇩🇪Beschreibt ein Segelschiff, das sich wegen Windstille nicht fortbewegen kann; auch allgemein: reglos, ohne Antrieb oder Fortgang.

1. No wind for sailing C1 formal

   Of a sailing ship, unable to move due to a lack of wind.

   • The ship was becalmed in the middle of the ocean for three days.
   • They sat helplessly as their sailboat was becalmed near the equator.
   • The crew grew restless when the vessel became becalmed.

   🇩🇪Windstille

   Synonyme: motionlessstationarystill

   Antonyme: blownmovingsailing

• more becalmed comparative form
• most becalmed superlative form

An archaic verb meaning to make calm or still, especially used in nautical contexts to describe a ship being left motionless due to lack of wind.

• 🇩🇪Veralteter Begriff mit der Bedeutung, jemanden oder etwas zu beruhigen oder unbeweglich zu machen; vor allem in der Seefahrt verwendet, um ein Schiff zu beschreiben, das wegen Windstille bewegungslos liegen bleibt.

1. Make steady or calm C2 formal

   To make something steady, calm, or still, especially in reference to the sea or wind.

   • The ship was becalmed in the middle of the ocean for days.
   • The sudden drop in wind becalmed the sailing boat.
   • The captain tried to becalm the anxious crew with reassuring words.

   🇩🇪Beruhigen

   Synonyme: calmcomposepacifyquietsettlesoothestilltranquilize

   Antonyme: agitatedisturbexciteperturbrousestirtroubleunsettleupsetworry

• becalmed past participle
• becalmed past simple
• becalming present participle
• becalms third person singular