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Ebb

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Noun

1. ebb, ebbing, wane

a gradual decline (in size or strength or power or number)

2. ebb, reflux

the outward flow of the tide

Verb

3. ebb, ebb away, ebb down, ebb off, ebb out

flow back or recede

Example Sentences:
'the tides ebbed at noon'

4. ebb

hem in fish with stakes and nets so as to prevent them from going back into the sea with the ebb

5. ebb

fall away or decline

Example Sentences:
'The patient's strength ebbed away'

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Ebb

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verb (intransitive)
1. 
(of tide water) to flow back or recede
Compare flow (sense 9)
2. 
to fall away or decline
noun
3. 
a. 
the flowing back of the tide from high to low water or the period in which this takes place
b. 
(as modifier)
the ebb tide
Compare flood (sense 3)
4.  at a low ebb

Collins English Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers

Ebb

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noun
1. 
the flow of water back toward the sea, as the tide falls
2. 
a weakening or lessening; decline
the ebb of faith
verb intransitive
3. 
to flow back; recede, as the tide
4. 
to weaken or lessen; decline

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Ebb

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n.
1. The receding or outgoing tide, occurring between the time when the tide is highest and the time when the following tide is lowest. Also called ebb tide, falling tide.
2. A period of decline or diminution: "Insistence upon rules of conduct marks the ebb of religious fervor" (Alfred North Whitehead).
intr.v. ebbed, ebb·ing, ebbs
1. To fall back from the flood stage.
2. To fall away or back; decline or recede. See Synonyms at recede1.
American playwright and lyricist. He wrote a number of musicals with the composer John Kander, including Cabaret (1966) and Chicago (1975).

The American Heritage ® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition copyright ©2018 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

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