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What does becalm mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word becalm? Here's what it means.

Verb
  1. (transitive) To make calm or still; make quiet; calm.
  2. (transitive, nautical) To deprive (a ship) of wind, so that it cannot move (usually in passive).
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But the legacy of the London Games may lie in something more imponderable, a finer sense of a nation relaunched, albeit in a time of economic doldrums that could yet becalm its renewal.
One sail is also said to becalm another when the wind is aft.
Children are guided rather than explicitly directed from one step to another — from mud pie making to hand washing, for instance — through song, because song, or soft song specifically, is understood to becalm.
The Prime Minister instructed Dyikanbayev to becalm the population and journalists of the country as the issue had been solved.
I am making a sail according to your lordship's plan, to becalm the hull of the ship, but want sailcloth for completing it.
An imprisoned man who asks for an Italian book to becalm his fever may be safely presumed to know that language.

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