becalm

There is a brief let up in the third act, but not enough to becalm the comedy.

She is said to frequently becalm the sea when boats are threatened with rocks.

"Did you tell them that I would becalm them if they didn't agree?"

They were making six knots but thewind was taking off: not enough to becalm them, but it might mean arriving late.

With its floating soft tones, Mr. Rush's voice can becalm Angst, contemporary or of a century ago.

The lulling sounds of the waterfall, the fragrance and the dusk combined to becalm my spirits, and, in a short time, to sink me into sleep.

I can't becalm her with the weather brewing up as it is, and I certainly can't capsize the boat with a windblast.

Jack altered course to bring the wind from right aft to near enough her quarter for the crossjack not to becalm the maincourse: she gathered way at once.

The heart is sometimes so embittered, that nothing but divine love can sweeten it; so enraged, that devotion only can becalm it; and so broke down, that it takes all the force of heavenly hope to raise it.