Anglais modifier

Étymologie modifier

Dérivé de calm, avec le préfixe be-.

Verbe modifier

Temps Forme
Infinitif to becalm
\Prononciation ?\
Présent simple,
3e pers. sing.
becalms
Prétérit becalmed
Participe passé becalmed
Participe présent becalming
voir conjugaison anglaise

becalm \Prononciation ?\

  1. (Poétique) Calmer.
    • Although the breeze had now utterly ceased, we had made a great deal of way during the night, and were now lying becalmed about half a mile to the south-east of the low eastern coast. — (Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island, page 102. 1883.)