'becalm' is a word in English and can be used in written English.
It is an intransitive verb that means to calm or soothe, especially someone who is anxious or agitated. Example sentence: After a long, stressful day, she found solace in the quiet of the meadow, which becalmed her mind.
Heading farther south they stalled in the doldrums a zone close to the equator that can becalm ships and rattle aircraft for nearly a month, before a sturdy wind carried them to Brazil in 20 days.On making landfall the sailors began to fight each other over food.
But the legacy of the London Games may lie in something more imponderable, a finer sense of a nation relaunched, albeit in a time of economic doldrums that could yet becalm its renewal.
Children are guided rather than explicitly directed from one step to another — from mud pie making to hand washing, for instance — through song, because song, or soft song specifically, is understood to becalm.
Perhaps it was asking too much of the stewards to becalm the inevitable throng.
It doesn't matter if you don't know the story of Iphigenia – the daughter of Greek general Agamemnon and his wife Clytemnestra – who is sacrificed simply in order to becalm the sea so that the Greek forces can set sail from Aulis to begin the siege of Troy.
The back seats of taxicabs used to be a place where TV was not -- where you could, if you wished, let your mind drift or becalm itself.
One glimpse tells us that it is heading, if not for trouble, at least for that area of blunder, becalming, and disappointment where half the world — the half so easily ignored by movies — tends to reside, and which the other half calls failure.
Her latest work, a series of lectures on science and religion, sleekly melds philosophical disquisition, caustic polemic, and becalming sermon.
The policy of becalming the education world in the run-up to the general election is clearly working.
Gullivers, Manchester, Fri; touring to 9 May JR The idea that electronic music might be an efficient, gently pulsing, becalming and informational space is completely flattened by Fuck Buttons – a snorting bull in the genre's china shop.
The maker of all worlds is made, Infinity becalms, From speed of light to feet of clay, My saviour in my arms.
