(of a sailing ship) unable to move through lack of wind.
his ship was becalmed for nine days
figurative a place becalmed in its past
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According to analyst reports this is one of the few growth segments in the otherwise becalmed server market.
The transition from the dreamland of a becalmed sailing-vessel to the dull, cheerless realities of his old life, and the uncertainties of his future, depressed him—filled him with forebodings.
A woman reads in a becalmed rowing boat, her beehive hairdo and goggle glasses making her look like an exotic animal.
There are some laughs to be had here, but they are islands in a becalmed ocean.
Conversely, the 'ambient' tracks float in amorphous realms of drifting waves, each composition conjuring a realm of becalmed bliss.
No natural light ever pierces these dark recesses of my flat, neither does the soft spring breeze ever waft gently through their becalmed atmosphere.
The volunteer-crewed lifeboat was launched just after 9pm and reached the becalmed vessel, Stride, at 11.10 pm.
The becalmed and top-heavy boat started to roll heavily.
One of the few insects to conquer the oceans, some intrepid species venture hundreds of miles across becalmed tropical seas.
He trained his binoculars on a suspicious cluster of becalmed motorboats a half-mile off through the haze.
There are three pivotal points where the camera eddies around a becalmed Johnny who seems ready to disintegrate.
It began as a routine supply mission to the front lines, in a volatile but largely becalmed city.
There you are and there the ball is, and there's the net billowing ever so gently, like the sail of a becalmed ship.
The becalmed dog sank to the ground.
High above, sheets of material hang like sails on a becalmed Spanish galleon.
His becalmed party needs to find the political wind again.
Much of it floats in the North Pacific gyre, a becalmed patch of the ocean that covers a greater area than North America and now resembles a vast plastic soup.
And so in a relatively becalmed August, the big news was that Cook made a simple call on the presidential race.
But there is still a mood of becalmed apprehension in many sectors of the economy.
Whitwell Harbour's becalmed shelter therefore came as a blessed relief, and I rattled off the boat as rapidly as possible.