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- verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
becalm .
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Examples
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What makes Culkin a scary devil-doll in "The Good Son" is the absolute lack of affect that becalms those 12-year-old eyes and lips.
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September 16th, 2008 at 1: 15 pm life insurance quotes says: life insurance quotes … becalms depreciation, nightmarish? predominant numbly quantifier …
Think Progress » Iraqi Leaders Call On U.S. To Set Timetable 2005
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_ Ha, ha, ha, never consult the Stars about that; Gold has a Power beyond them; Gold unlocks the Midnight Councils; Gold out-does the Wind, becalms the Ship, or fills her Sails; Gold is omnipotent below; it makes whole Armies fight, or fly; It buys even Souls, and bribes the Wretches to betray their Country: Then what can thy Business be, that Gold won't serve thee in?
The Busie Body Susanna Centlivre
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I could talk of our becalms and our storms and our crossing the Line, and of our trouble with the travado-wind.
Marjorie 1898
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The activity prompts a typically maternal reaction as mum - without arousing from her own slumber - becalms the youngster by stretching out her paws and hugging the kitten, drawing her offspring even closer to her chest.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011
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The activity prompts a typically maternal reaction as mum - without arousing from her own slumber - becalms the youngster by stretching out her paws and hugging the kitten, drawing her offspring even closer to her chest.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011
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[(A stag) 9.1 (nant breez) -6.9 (eless air becalms my) 29.1 (soul;)] TJ
Drelincourt and Rodalvi; or, Memoirs of Two Nobel Families Byron 1807
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Robin van Persie becalms Harry Redknapp effect on Arsenal versus Tottenham fixture
Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph 2010
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