ebb

About 1.53 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. noun The receding movement of the tide.

   The boats will go out on the ebb.

2. noun A gradual decline.
3. noun A low state; a state of depression.
4. noun A European bunting, the corn bunting (Emberiza calandra, syns. Emberiza miliaria, Milaria calandra).
5. adjective low, shallow
6. verb to flow back or recede

   The tides ebbed at noon.

7. verb to fall away or decline

   The dying man's strength ebbed away.

8. verb to fish with stakes and nets that serve to prevent the fish from getting back into the sea with the ebb

Similar words

low reflux wane receding valley flux flow surge drop-off descendant

Often followed by

and tide of in away to as that or

Word family

ebbed ebbing ebbs