CALMED

Definition: CALMED

CALMED

Imperative & past participle

1. Of Calm

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Date "CALMED" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1350. (references)

Crosswords: CALMED

English words defined with "CALMED": placable. (references)

Specialty definitions using "CALMED": Asparagus ♦ Counter-caster ♦ Silver Star of Love, Sparrowgrass ♦ traffic calmed area. (references)

Domain	Usage
Screenplays	She's calmed down a bit. I put a clip on one side, which seems to have stopped the curling. (Friends; writing credit: Jörn O. Jensen; Birger Larsen)
Lyrics	Of how we calmed the tides of war. We are your overlords. ("Immigrant song"; performing artist: Led Zeppelin)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Title	Author	Quote
So Long, and Thanks For All the Fish	Douglas Adams	Zaphod's calmed down a lot you know.
Grapes of Wrath	Steinbeck, John	Then he calmed his voice.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Subject	Topic	Quote
Economic History	Georgia	Although the situation in these regions has calmed considerably, there was renewed violence in Abkhazia in 1998 and partisan activity continues in these regions, resulting in the downing of a UN helicopter in October 2001. Both regions' status remains unresolved and the central government does not have effective control of these areas. (references)
	Ukraine	A lengthy period of political uncertainty distracted the government and parliament away from the real work of reform in late 2000 and early 2001. Despite the level of anxiety among business circles and foreign investors, however, economic growth continued throughout the crisis (although its pace has increased as the political situation has calmed). (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

"CALMED" is generally used as a lexical verb (past tense) -- approximately 54.31% of the time. "CALMED" is used about 232 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Lexical Verb (past tense)	54.31%	126	28,512
Lexical Verb (past participle)	44.83%	104	31,955
Adjective (general or positive)	0.86%	2	245,945
Total	100.00%	232	N/A

Expression using "CALMED": traffic calmed area. Additional references.
Hypenated Usage
	Ending with "CALMED": traffic-calmed.
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The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Language		Translations for "CALMED"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Chinese		镇定 (Calming). (various references)

French		calmai, calmés, calmées, calmé, calmèrent, calma. (various references)

German		beruhigte (appeased, hushed, quieted, reassured, tranquilized, tranquillized). (various references)

Italian		calmato. (various references)

Korean		진� �시키�". (various references)

Manx		kiunit (becalmed, lulled, pacified, quelled, stilled, tranquillized). (various references)

Pig Latin		almedcay.(various references)

Spanish		calmado (appeased, stretcher strains: 2. killing). (various references)

Swedish		lugnade. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	sedatus. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Derivations
	Words ending with "CALMED": becalmed. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"CALMED" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: acumed, almed, caamed, caled, calem, Callmis, calme, calmet, Camdem, camed, Camley, cammed, camoed, Capmd, celje, cemed, clamder, Clamey, clande, comed, kalme. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "CALMED" (pronounced kÄ"md or kÄ"lmd)
4	k Ä" m d	becalmed.
3	-Ä" m d	bombed, embalmed.
3	-l m d	filmed, overwhelmed.
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Direct Anagrams: macled.
	Words within the letters "a-c-d-e-l-m"
	-1 letter: camel, clade, decal, laced, lamed, maced, macle, medal.
	-2 letters: aced, acme, alec, alme, cade, calm, came, clad, clam, dace, dale, dame, deal, lace, lade, lame, lead, mace, made, male, mead, meal, meld.
	-3 letters: ace, ale, cad, cam, cel, dal, dam, del, eld, elm, lac, lad, lam, lea, led, mac, mad, mae, med, mel.
	-4 letters: ad, ae, al, am, de, ed, el, em, la, ma, me.
	Words containing the letters "a-c-d-e-l-m"
	+1 letter: claimed, clammed, clamped, decimal, declaim, mackled, maculed, medical.
	+2 letters: aceldama, becalmed, camailed, clamored, climaxed, decimals, declaims, emplaced, maledict, manacled, medallic, medicals, melodica, muscadel.
	+3 letters: acclaimed, aceldamas, calamined, chlamydes, clambered, clamoured, comradely, cumulated, decimally, declaimed, declaimer, demonical, exclaimed, maculated, maledicts, marcelled, medicable, medically, medicinal, melodicas, miscalled, misplaced, muscadels, reclaimed, scrambled, unclaimed, unclamped.
	+4 letters: academical, acclimated, acrylamide, alchemized, aldermanic, beclamored, biomedical, calamander, calcimined, camelopard, chlamydiae, collimated, complained, coromandel, culminated, decemviral, decimalize, declaimers, declaiming, demoniacal, descramble, dilemmatic, disclaimed, disclaimer, documental, duodecimal, ectodermal, epidemical, germicidal, imbalanced, implicated, maledicted, medicinals, methodical, misclaimed, misclassed, mislocated, nonmedical, premedical, proclaimed.
	+5 letters: accumulated, acrylamides, aeromedical, bachelordom, blackmailed, calamanders, calumniated, camelopards, camouflaged, candelabrum, caramelised, caramelized, comedically, commandable, commendable, commendably, complicated, condemnable, condimental, coromandels, decimalized, decimalizes, declamation, declamatory, decremental, demiurgical, demonically, descrambled, descrambler, descrambles, diametrical, dimercaprol, diplomacies, disclaimers, disclimaxes, domiciliate, duodecimals, emasculated, endemically, endoplasmic, hexadecimal, immedicable, immedicably, maledicting, malediction, maledictory, medicinable, medicinally, medicolegal, melodically, misbalanced, multicoated, musicalised, musicalized, nematicidal, nematocidal, overclaimed, paramedical, quitclaimed, scleroderma, simulcasted, spermicidal, umbilicated, unreclaimed, unscrambled.
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