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becalm
(redirected from becalming)

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be·calm  (b-käm)
tr.v. be·calmed, be·calm·ing, be·calms
1. To render motionless for lack of wind: "Across the harbor, a small sailing skiff, becalmed near some reeds, caught the breeze again" (Horace Freeland Judson).
2. To make calm or still; soothe.
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Verb1.becalm - make steady; "steady yourself"
steady, calm
stabilise, stabilize - become stable or more stable; "The economy stabilized"


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The complex mix of the provisonal, the negated, and the contingent in Tsai Ming-liang's intensely peculiar movies may be at odds with words like "comfort," but there is an entranced ambience to his films that can be inexplicably becalming, much as The Hole's incessant water-torture gurgle of wet sounds grows lulling after a while.
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