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Beclam vs Becalm - What's the difference?

beclam | becalm |

As verbs the difference between beclam and becalm

is that beclam is to beclog with anything clammy or sticky while becalm is to make calm or still; make quiet; calm.

beclam

English

Verb

(beclamm)
  • To beclog with anything clammy or sticky.

    • becalm

    English

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To make calm or still; make quiet; calm.
  • (nautical) To deprive (a ship) of wind, so that it cannot move (usually in passive).
  • *2011 , Thomas Penn, Winter King , Penguin 2012, p. 214:
  • *:In the following two days, they made fast progress, strong easterly winds driving them down the Channel to where it opened out into the Atlantic; there, they were briefly becalmed .

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