Crossword-Solution: BECALMED
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Becalmed | imp. & p. p. | of Becalm |
We have 5 clues for the answer “BECALMED”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Fate of the Ancient Mariner. | 1 answer |
| Like sloops on windless days | 1 answer |
| Made still | 2 answers |
| In the doldrums. | 6 answers |
| Still | 89 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
ZCEAEM
Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with BECALMED (5)
They are becalmed.” And then with an exclamation of renewed hope, “We can reach them! The skiff will carry us easily.” Gust demurred.
Her hull was in sight and she was still becalmed, though her head was pointed in the right direction, and everything was set to catch the coming breeze.
She made a fair passage till within view of Kinnaird Head, where, as she was becalmed some three miles in the offing, and wind seemed to threaten from the south-east, the captain landed him, to continue his journey more expeditiously ashore.
Since my return to England it has been told me that like sounds have been heard at sea, and that the sailor becalmed under a vertical sun in the midst of the wide ocean has listened in trembling wonder to the chime of his own village bells.
Even in the finest weather, when the ships off shore are becalmed and their sails hang loose against the mast, there is always a wreath of foam at the base of these bluffs.
Quotes with BECALMED (3)
In this becalmed zone the sea has a smooth surface, the palm-tree stirs gently in the breeze, the waves lap against the pebbles and raw materials are ceaselessly transported, justifying the presence of the settler; and all the while the native, bent double, near dead than alive, exists interminably in an unchanging dream. The settler makes history; his life is an epoch, an Odyssey... Over against him torpid creatures, wasted by fever, obsessed by ancestral customs, form an al…
In her mind's eye she saw it, saw it all at last: the rolling armies and the flames of battle; the graves and pits and dying cries of a hundred million souls; the spreading darkness, like a black wing stretching over the earth; the last, bitter hours of cruelty and sorrow, and the terrible, final flights; death's great dominion over all, and, at the last, empty cities, becalmed by the silence of a hundred years. Already these things were coming to pass.
And under the cicadas, deeper down that the longest taproot, between and beneath the rounded black rocks and slanting slabs of sandstone in the earth, ground water is creeping. Ground water seeps and slides, across and down, across and down, leaking from here to there, minutely at a rate of a mile a year. What a tug of waters goes on! There are flings and pulls in every direction at every moment. The world is a wild wrestle under the grass; earth shall be moved. What else is …
Where this answer appears
Appears in: NYT, USA TODAY.
Used 5 times in crossword archives (1960–1996).