Crossword clues for becalmed
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
nonmoving \nonmoving\ adj. Not moving. Opposite of moving. [Narrower terms: at rest, inactive, motionless, static, still; becalmed ; {dead(prenominal), stagnant, standing(prenominal), still; frozen(predicate), rooted(predicate), stock-still ; {inert ; {sitting ; {slack ; {stationary ; {immobile, unmoving] Also See: immobile.
Wiktionary
(context nautical English) (of a sailing ship) unable to move due to lack of wind v
(en-past of: becalm)
WordNet
adj. rendered motionless for lack of wind
Wikipedia
Becalmed may refer to:
- En rade or Becalmed, an 1887 novel by Joris-Karl Huysmans
- "Becalmed", a song from the Brian Eno album Another Green World
Usage examples of "becalmed".
The Rift was quiet now, the wind strangely becalmed, the stench of underworld metals rising in its place.
At last we were able to escape those waters and found ourselves becalmed and alone.
We landed here for water, as we have just lain becalmed off a damned island full of ghost snakes and walking statues.
The remaining 117 men were probably becalmed, in their barques and canoas, some miles from the vanguard.
Jasper looked up at Hannah and gave her a small smile, his tiny obsidian eyes expressing a much becalmed disposition.
Now that the Hebrian trade had started up again, ships that had lain becalmed beyond the curve of the horizon were working in under all the canvas they could bear.
He has murdered our weather-worker and left us becalmed, thinking perhaps that will be enough.
It was like being in the Doldrums, that area of no wind near the Equator, where sailing ships are becalmed for days and weeks, waiting for the tiniest breeze to pipe up, fill their canvas and drive them onward.
That very night we lost a man overboard, but it was not until some weeks later, after we had been becalmed for ten days or more, that we fell in with the gale which reduced us to the wrecked state in which you found us.
The dense forest of West Country Marre pine cut the wind into innocuous puffs that soughed through the needle-laden branches, causing them to dip and sway like the wavelets of a becalmed sea.
Leopard was almost becalmed, while on the crest the full force of the wind struck her, threatening to tear her sails from their boltropes or to carry away her masts: even worse, she lost some of her way at the bottom, whereas she needed all her speed to outrun the following seas, for if they were to overtake her she would be pooped, smothered in a mass of breaking water.
Out on the river, in a sea of blackness, the running lights of powerboats shone red and green, motionless on the becalmed waters.
Through the early part of the afternoon we were never quite becalmed but Uncle had to search out catspaws on the water to find some puff of wind.
The unstirring grass, the energyless water and dead sky, made it appear that time itself had been becalmed.
With the wagon becalmed Elvo climbed to the summit of a nearby hill and descended the opposite side, where he discovered a copse of wild pawpaws, apparently unguarded by fiap.