ebb
noun
- 1
the outward flow of the tide
- 2
a gradual decline (in size or strength or power or number)
verb
- 1
fall away or decline
The patient's strength ebbed away
- 2
hem in fish with stakes and nets so as to prevent them from going back into the sea with the ebb
- 3
flow back or recede
the tides ebbed at noon
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