How do you pronounce becalmed?

The recorded pronunciation is /bɪkˈɑmd/.

becalmed

/bɪkˈɑmd/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.04 in modern English

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"[…] when we got aſterne we grew becalm'd, land-lockt in a fort, and were ſported all the way […]"
"Although the breeze had now utterly failed, we had made a great deal of way during the night, and were now lying becalmed about half a mile to the southeast of the low eastern coast."

more becalmed (comparative) most becalmed (superlative)

unbecalmed

bombed calmed embalmed

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